North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for stepped-up efforts to prepare for war, saying the United States is engaged in “unprecedented” acts of confrontation against the country, state media reported Thursday.
In the second-day session of the plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party on Wednesday, Kim also presented a goal of strengthening cooperation with “anti-imperialist” countries, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
“He set forth the militant tasks for the People’s Army and the munitions industry, nuclear weapons and civil defense sectors to further accelerate the war preparations,” the KCNA said in an English-language dispatch.
He said the security situation on the Korean Peninsula has become unprecedentedly grave due to anti-North Korea confrontation moves by the U.S. and its followers.
