N. Korea to expand nuclear arms

North Korea on Monday, May 9, wrapped up its first ruling party congress for 36 years – an event seen as a formal coronation for leader Kim Jong-Un, who was appointed to the post of party chairman. Thousands of delegates to what is technically North Korea’s top decision-making body, also dopted a decision to simultaneously push forward economic construction and “boost self-defensive nuclear force both in quality and quantity.” It also enshrined a policy of not using nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is threatened by another nuclear power, and of working towards the eventual reunification of the divided Korean peninsula.