Workers' Party member Terence Tan, who had contested in 2 general elections, confirmed that he had left the party in January due to personal reasons. Read on.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un made a rare admission that the country's rural communities are lacking "basic living necessities" at a meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea.
North Korea's ruling Workers' Party is holding an end-of-year session under its general secretary, supreme leader Kim Jong Un, state media in the internationally isolated state reported on Wednesday The party's central committee was to review the events of 2023 and discuss the "orientation of the struggle for 2024," the reports said. At the start of the conference lasting several days, Kim described 2023 as a "year of great shifts and changes." He referred to the entrenching of nuclear armament
Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the imprisonment of newly elected opposition lawmaker Can Atalay violated his rights to security, liberty and the right to be elected. Atalay, 47, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in April 2022 after being convicted of trying to overthrow the government by organising the nationwide Gezi Park protests in 2013 along with Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and six others. All defendants denied the charges regarding the protests, which they said developed spontaneously, and which marked the biggest popular challenge to President Tayyip Erdogan in his so far two decades in power.