North Korea to hold meeting of top leaders: report

March 27, 2013 11:21

North Korea's top leaders are to meet in the coming days to decide on an unspecified "important" issue, official media said today, as tensions simmer on the Korean peninsula.

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party's Central Committee will convene its plenary meeting before the end of March to "discuss and decide an important issue for victoriously advancing the Korean revolution", the Korean Central News Agency said.

KCNA did not specify the date for the meeting, which will also reportedly make a "drastic turn" in accomplishing the North's Juche (self-reliance) revolutionary cause.

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