North Korean leader seen smoking ... again

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was spotted smoking in public for the first time in around two months, despite the country being in the middle of an official anti-smoking campaign.
State media showed the leader with a cigarette in his right hand during a visit to a children’s camp in Pyongyang. Until now, news reports on Kim’s activities have shown him without his habitual cigarette and an ashtray on a nearby table. He’s known to be a heavy smoker, and experts believe he might have just stopped smoking on official duties for the sake of the cameras. 
The leader was last seen lighting up on 15 March while attending a test of a home-grown North Korean rocket motor.
Pyongyang to convene assembly late June
North Korea said on Thursday that it will convene a session of its Parliament in late June, following a rare congress of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party in May that cemented Kim’s control of the isolated state.
Delegates to the assembly meet annually to formally adopt the state budget and to approve key appointments and legal amendments, and the venue is also used to formally approve other decisions by the state leadership.
The party congress, the first in 36 years, was held amid great attention and elevated Kim to the post of party chairman. He declared that the country was a nuclear weapons state but would not use its arsenal unless first attacked.
Kim can put his mark on the parliamentary meeting that may approve personnel changes announced at the last month’s congress. “The 4th session of the 13th SPA (Supreme People’s Assembly) will be convened in Pyongyang on June 29,” state-run KCNA news agency reported.

Source: Arab News