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Kim Jong Un Visits Samjiyon County Ahead of Supreme People’s Assembly Meeting

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Kim Jong Un Visits Samjiyon County Ahead of Supreme People’s Assembly Meeting

The North Korean leader conducted his first on-site survey in 2019.

Kim Jong Un Visits Samjiyon County Ahead of Supreme People’s Assembly Meeting
Credit: Rodong Sinmun

On Thursday, North Korean state media reported on what appears to be leader Kim Jong Un’s first so-called “field guidance” tour in 2019.

Kim “walked round the township of Samjiyon County under construction to learn about how the construction is now underway,” the official state newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported on Wednesday.

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