North Korea’s Kim orders military to accelerate war preparations, state media reports
- Kim ordered the munitions and nuclear weapons sectors to accelerate war preparations to counter ‘unprecedented confrontational moves by the US’
- Speaking during a meeting on policy direction, Kim said Pyongyang would expand strategic cooperation with ‘anti-imperialist independent’ countries
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered its military, the munitions industry and the nuclear weapons sector to accelerate war preparations to counter what he called unprecedented confrontational moves by the US, state media said on Thursday.
“He (Kim) set forth the militant tasks for the People’s Army and the munitions industry, nuclear weapons and civil defence sectors to further accelerate the war preparations,” KCNA said.
Kim also laid out economic goals for the new year during the meeting, calling it a “decisive year” to accomplish the country’s five-year development plan, the report said.
“He … clarified the important tasks for the new year to be dynamically pushed forward in the key industrial sectors,” and called for “stabilising the agricultural production on a high level.”