Kim lambasted the United States during a lengthy speech at the end of fivedays of year-end party meetings that set his country's military, political,and economic policy decisions for 2024. At the meeting that ended Saturday, Kim accused the United States of posing"various types of military threat" and ordered his armed forces to maintain"overwhelming war response capability", according to KCNA. In an effort to deter Pyongyang, Washington earlier this month deployed anuclear-powered submarine in the South Korean port city of Busan, and flewits long-range bombers in drills with Seoul and Tokyo. The North has previously described the deployment of Washington's strategicweapons -- such as B-52 bombers -- in joint drills on the Korean peninsula asthe "intentional nuclear war provocative moves". Kim ordered the drawing-up of measures for reorganising departments handlingcross-border affairs, to "fundamentally shift the direction".

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha December 31, 2023 18:48 UTC