Kim Jong-un unexpectedly absent from founding day of Korean Workers' Party

October 10 marks the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, but party leader Kim Jong-un has been absent for three days since his last appearance at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on October 7.

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Chairman Kim Jong-un.

According to KBS, this year, North Korean media did not report on President Kim Jong-un's visit to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, one of the annual events taking place on the party's founding day.

Kumsusan Palace of the Sun is the resting place of the two late North Korean presidents Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, the grandfather and father of leader Kim Jong-un.

Kim Jong-un was last seen at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on October 7. Speaking at the meeting, Kim Jong-un called the country's nuclear weapons a powerful defense for itself and the world against the US nuclear threat.

“The DPRK’s nuclear weapons are the precious fruits of the people’s bloody struggle to defend the country’s destiny and sovereignty from the US nuclear threat. They are a powerful defense measure to protect the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia,” Kim Jong-un stressed.

According to Chairman Kim, in the context of the "complicated international situation", nuclear weapons will help ensure North Korea's sovereignty as well as its "right to exist".

The North Korean leader called it “a precious sword of justice that will remove the nuclear cloud of tyranny” and “provide the people with an independent and happy life under the clear blue sky.”

Since taking power, this is the third time Kim Jong-un has not visited the Sun Palace on the party's founding day.

According to TPO