Kim Jong Un reappointed as North Korea's president of state affairs

The announcement was made a day after North Korea convened the first session of its Supreme People's Assembly. The assembly, the isolated nation's rubber-stamp legislature, formally approves state policy.

In Short

• Supreme People's Assembly convened in Pyongyang
• Assembly to discuss constitutional amendments
• North Korea's five-year economic plan to be reviewed

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reappointed as president of state affairs, state media KCNA reported on Monday, after the isolated nation convened the first session of its Supreme People's Assembly a day earlier.

The meeting in Pyongyang will discuss amendments and supplements to the socialist constitution, as well as the election of the chairman of the State Affairs Commission and other state leadership bodies.

The assembly, North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature that formally approves state policy, typically meets following a ruling Workers' Party Congress to turn party decisions into law.

The meeting will also review the country's economic five-year plan announced at the ninth party congress held in February, KCNA said.

Attention has been focused on whether Pyongyang will revise its constitution to formalise leader Kim Jong Un's "two hostile states" policy toward South Korea.

In recent years, Kim has abandoned Pyongyang's long-standing goal of peaceful reunification and redefined the South as a hostile state.

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