First party congress North Korea since 1980

pyongyang - North Korea on Friday (local time) the seventh congress of the ruling Workers' Party began, the BBC reports.

Thousands of delegates came to the capital Pyongyang to show their support for the head of state Kim Jong-un. Who will use the conference to strengthen its position and to call from North Korea to nuclear power. He will be economic and military policy for years to formulate.

The delegates elect a new Central Committee, which will appoint a politburo in turn distributed and important political functions. According to some experts, Kim will be sister Yo-jong, with whom he studied in Switzerland, provide an important function.

The last party congress was held in 1980, when Kim's father Kim Jong-il was appointed as successor to the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung.