SEOUL: After four years of top-level reshuffles, purges and executions, Kim Jong-un will formally cement his unassailable status as North Korea's supreme leader at a landmark ruling party congress this week.
The first gathering of its kind for nearly 40 years is really a coronation of sorts – recognizing the young 33-year-old leader as the legitimate inheritor of the dynastic dictatorship started by his grandfather Kim Il-sung and passed down through his late father Kim Jong-il.
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