SEOUL, June 17 (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has attended the opening of a key party meeting to decide his country’s diplomatic and defence strategy amid a “changed international situation”, according to state media.

Kim joined the eight enlarged plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), which opened on Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday.

The meeting, which will likely be held over several days, will discuss “the issue of the state diplomatic and defence strategy to cope with the changed international situation”, as well as review economic activity for the first half of this year, KCNA said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

According to Yonhap, the meeting has been convened as North Korea seeks to bolster ties with Russia and China during “intensifying Sino-US rivalry and Russia’s war on Ukraine”.