On March 15， the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) announced that the 4th Session of North Korea’s 12th SPA will convene on April 7 in Pyongyang， ordering all the SPA members to pre-register from April 5 to 6.
The SPA is the highest organ of state power according to the Constitution of the DPRK. The Assembly is convened once or twice a year in regular sessions and called to meet in two to three weeks in advance. Its functions include adopting， amending or supplementing enactments to the constitution， determining state policy and budgets， and organizing elections of National Defence Commission (NDC) and other state orga