North Korea’s parliament to approve Kim Jong Un’s agenda

A TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (Lee Jin-man/AP)

North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament was scheduled to convene to pass decisions made by a major ruling party meeting where leader Kim Jong Un vowed maximum efforts to expand his nuclear weapons programme in face of what he described as US hostility.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said deputies led by senior official Choe Ryong Hae, president of the Supreme People’s Assembly’s presidium, laid flowers at the statues of Mr Kim’s grandfather and father, the North’s previous rulers, at Pyongyang’s Mansu Hill as they prepared for the parliamentary session.