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By Hyon Hee Shin
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country’s war deterrent in a “more practical and offensive” way to counter what he called aggressive moves by the United States and South Korea, the leader said. Tuesday the state media KCNA.
Kim made the comment at an expanded meeting of the Central Military Commission held Monday to discuss ongoing efforts to boost the country’s war deterrence to “cope with the ever-increasing moves of US imperialists and Korean treacherous puppets.” of the South to unleash a war of aggression”. KCNA said.
North Korea has been reacting angrily to a recent series of joint allied military exercises, which the KCNA said were aimed at preparing for “all-out war” and forced Pyongyang to explore “powerful practical actions” including military options.
Kim ordered to further strengthen the country’s war deterrence with “increasing speed” and in a “more practical and offensive” manner, KCNA said.
The meeting “discussed practical matters and measures for the machinery to prepare various proposals for military action that have no means and ways of countering available to the enemy,” it added.
South Korea and US forces have held annual spring exercises since March, including air and sea exercises with a US aircraft carrier and B-1B and B-52 bombers, and their first large-scale amphibious landing exercises in five years.
North Korea has also carried out various military activities in recent weeks, unveiling new, smaller nuclear warheads, testing what it called a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone, and firing an ICBM capable of hitting anywhere in the United States. .