Seoul, June 26, 2010, SPA -- North Korea will hold a ruling Workers' Party convention in September to choose a new leadership, state media said on Saturday. Leader Kim Jong-il suffered a stroke in 2008, Reuters reported. "The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee decides to convene early in September ... a conference of the WPK for electing its highest leading body reflecting the new requirements of the WPK," the North's official KCNA news agency reported. The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is the ruling body of North Korea and leader Kim Jong-il serves as the general secretary, besides his official role as the chairman of the increasingly powerful National Defence Commission. Kim, 68, has also reshuffled the Defence Commission. --SPA 14:19 LOCAL TIME 11:19 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/796221