Urgent: DPRK's 9th Party Congress opens in Pyongyang -- KCNA

PYONGYANG, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), opened here on Thursday, with Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK, attending the event and making a speech, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday. ■