SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was reappointed as president of state affairs, state media KCNA reported on Monday (March 23), after the isolated nation convened the first session of its Supreme People's Assembly a day earlier.

The meeting in Pyongyang will discuss amendments and supplements to the socialist constitution, as well as the election of the chairman of the State Affairs Commission and other state leadership bodies.

The assembly, North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature that formally approves state policy, typically meets following a ruling Workers' Party Congress to turn party decisions into law.

The meeting will also review the country's economic five-year plan announced at the ninth party congress held in February, KCNA said.

Attention has been focused on whether Pyongyang will revise its constitution to formalise leader Kim Jong-un's "two hostile states" policy toward South Korea.

In recent years, Kim has abandoned Pyongyang's long-standing goal of peaceful reunification and redefined the South as a hostile state.

Kim's powerful sister, Kim Yo-jong, was notably absent from KCNA's list of members of the State Affairs Commission, the country's highest leadership body, on which she had served since 2021.