The Ninth Workers’ Party Congress in North Korea has concluded after a rare five-year-long conclave. Kim Jong Un has been re-elected as party general secretary in a unanimous vote. Well, this is not exactly a surprise in a country where dissident voices are supposed to be non-existent in the first place. What you need to know about this, however, is this: in his re-election, Kim Jong Un not only consolidated his power but also sent a message to the US: it will not be the other way around in