Kim opens North Korean congress admitting policy failures

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened his country’s first ruling party congress in five years with an admission that past policies had failed and vowed to set new developmental goals, state media reported Wednesday.

The Workers’ Party Congress, the party’s top decision-making body, met in Pyongyang on Tuesday to determine “a fresh line of struggle and strategic and tactical policies,” with thousands of delegates and observers in attendance, the Korean Central News Agency reported.