国际英语新闻：Ruling party's conference to indicate new age for DPRK

The upcoming WPK conference is to be a meeting of significance under new domestic and international circumstances.

According to the decision announced by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the WPK on June 23, the WPK conference will elect its highest leading body, which is a timely move to reinforce and improve its function and mechanism.

Domestically, the WPK faced heavy tasks in building "a great prosperous and powerful nation," which required a strong and vigorous leading body.

Recently, the DPRK media repeatedly underlined that the country would resolve economic issues on its own.

Kim Jong Il, top leader of the DPRK, paid unofficial visits to China twice this year, respectively in May and August, during which he said the DPRK was working hard in developing its economy and improving people's living conditions.

Internationally, the DPRK is trying to create a peaceful environment for the economic construction.

At a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kim said he hoped to strengthen communication and cooperation with China, with a view to resuming the six-party talks on nuclear disarmament, mitigating the tense atmosphere on the Korean Peninsula and safeguarding peace and stability in the region.

In August, at a meeting with visiting former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, said that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the teachings of the late leader Kim Il Sung, once again indicating an active signal for resuming the six-party talks.

The conference, dubbed as "an epoch-making milestone", in the country's revolution and "a glorious page" in the party's history, will indicate that the DPRK is about to enter a new age.