SEOUL: North Korea announced Friday it would convene a congress of its ruling Workers' Party for the first time in 35 years, reviving a forum last gathered under the rule of current leader Kim Jong-Un's grandfather, Kim Il-Sung.

The congress -- only the seventh since the official founding of the party in 1945 -- will be held in May next year, the party central committee's politburo said in a statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.

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