North Korea to hold congress of largest youth organization next month

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Published: 10 Mar. 2026, 13:29

This file image from Korean Central Television on Jan. 17 shows an event held the previous day to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League in Pyongyang. [YONHAP]

North Korea will hold a congress of the country's largest youth organization next month as a follow-up to a recent party congress in a bid to spur the implementation of party decisions, state media said on Tuesday.

The Socialist Patriotic Youth League, the country's largest youth organization, decided at a meeting the previous day to convene a congress in Pyongyang in late April, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

The KCNA said the congress was called to mobilize young people nationwide and strengthen the functions and roles of youth groups to “thoroughly implement decisions from the party congress.”

The upcoming meeting is expected to elect new leadership at the youth organization, as the North steps up efforts to implement new goals set at last month's weeklong congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, held for the first time in five years.

The North previously announced an election to choose new representatives to the Supreme People's Assembly on Sunday.

Yonhap