North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for strengthening the army’s deterrent capacity “in a more practical and offensive way” in the face of, as he denounced, the situation created on the peninsula by large military exercises by South Korea and the US.
The marshal’s comments came during an extended meeting of the Central Military Commission held in Pyongyang on Monday, the state agency KCNA reported today.
Kim stressed the need to “with increasing speed strengthen the deterrent capacity of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea’s official name) in a more practical and offensive way in order to apply it effectively as a measure to achieve more control and management security landscape, which is worsening on the Korean peninsula.
At the meeting, they spoke of “preparing various proposals for military action so that the enemy has no means or ways to counteract” an attack.
In the images published by KCNA, Kim Jong-un is seen pointing to a map that, despite being blurred on purpose, appears to be of South Korea.
Specifically, Kim seems to be pointing to the area where Camp Humphreys is located, the largest US base in the Asian country located 60 kilometers south of Seoul.
The meeting, which coincided with the 11th anniversary of Kim’s appointment to head the North Korean Workers’ Party, came at a time “when the US imperialists and the traitorous South Korean puppets are becoming more brazen in their moves to carry out a war of aggression”.
Since last March, Seoul and Washington have been carrying out major military maneuvers that have included the participation of US strategic assets such as bombers or nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
Pyongyang, which condemns the fact that the allies are openly talking about the “occupation of Pyongyang” and the regime’s “deheading operation”, has responded by testing different types of missiles and even a nuclear-capable underwater drone.
It has also revealed for the first time that it possesses tactical nuclear warheads, underscoring that it is willing to further refine its short-range arsenal for potential use in South Korea and other nearby countries such as Japan, which also has US bases.
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