NORTH KOREA
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Pyongyang, North Korea—A hostess adjusts the volume of a TV broadcast showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a restaurant at the Yanggakdo hotel on May 6. The secretive nation kicked off its first ruling-party congress in 36 years with state media lauding the isolated country’s “prestige” as a nuclear power, saying it will strengthen self-defensive nuclear weapons capability, a decision adopted in defiance of U.N. resolutions. North Korea invited numerous foreign journalists to visit during the meeting but blocked them from covering the proceedings and expelled a BBC crew for its coverage.