NORTH KOREA opened the congress of its ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang yesterday, busing over 100 foreign journalists to the venue but keeping them outside.

In the April 25 House of Culture, draped in red party banners and flags, thousands of delegates heard dynastic leader Kim Jong Un make the keynote speech, but foreign journalists found themselves taken to a wire factory instead.

Neither the government nor the party has revealed an agenda for the congress — the first in 36 years — or even when it is expected to end.