Mistakes were made.
That’s according to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who in an address to a ruling party meeting made a frank admission — that the country’s policies in the past five years had ended in abject failure.
“Almost all sectors fell a long way short of the set objectives,” Kim told thousands of delegates to the Workers Party’s 8th Congress, seated in a huge auditorium in Pyongyang.
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