North Korea's ruling Workers' Party's central committee will hold a plenary session this week to make decisions on key policy issues needed in time of an "important historic period," the communist state said Thursday.

The meeting will be convened Friday, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.

"The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea made a decision to convene the Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the WPK on April 20 in order to discuss and decide the policy issues of a new stage in line with the demand of the important historic period of the developing Korean revolution," it said.

The report did not specify policy issues, but the committee meeting comes ahead of a scheduled meeting between its leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, which will be held next Friday. (Yonhap)

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