North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reiterated that he will strengthen nuclear force without limits and focus all efforts on completing war preparations, the Korean Central News Agency reported.
The news agency said Kim made the remarks in a speech on the second day of the 4th battalion commander and battalion political leadership conference in Pyongyang on the 14th and 15th.
Chairman Kim stressed that the nuclear force strengthening route has long been an irreversible policy for us, and all that is left is to have a more complete operational readiness to carry out the mission of deterrence of war and the second mission right now.
He also argued that the U.S.-led military alliance is expanding to a wide range of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and that it would not be strange if the U.S. and its followers wore signs of military alliances such as NATO and appeared in the Korean Peninsula in case of emergency.
This is the first time Chairman Kim has directly criticized the U.S. since the U.S. presidential election.
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