Photo: Kim Jong Un, source: Reqnews.com
Stramed, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un set forth new policies to increase the nation’s nuclear deterrence at a meeting of military leaders, state news agency KCNA reported Sunday.
The meeting is the North Korean leader’s first known public appearance since he attended a ceremony marking the opening of a fertilizer factory earlier this month following global speculation about his health.
Kim presided over a meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea Central Military Commission (CMC), according to KCNA.
In this undated photo provided on Sunday, May 24, 2020, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of military leaders. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified.
KCNA didn’t report details but said “crucial measures for considerably increasing the firepower strike ability of the artillery pieces of the Korean People’s Army” were taken at the meeting, as well as actions “putting the strategic armed forces on a high alert operation.”
At the meeting, Kim signed seven orders, KCNA reported. The orders concerned “enhancing” the responsibility and roles of major military educational institutions, reorganizing the military command system “to meet the mission and duty of the security institutions” and promoting the military ranks of commanding officers, KCNA said.
The meeting also “reviewed and analyzed a series of drawbacks in the military and political activities of the overall armed forces of the DPRK” and discussed “methodological issues for overcoming them and bringing about drastic improvement,” according to KCNA.
The meeting “served as a historic turning point of great significance in increasing the capabilities of the revolutionary armed forces,” according to KCNA.
US talks with North Korea have stalled
North Korea ramped up missile testing earlier this year.
In late March, North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the sea off the coast of Japan for the sixth launch by the regime in less than a month.
North Korea has aggressively tested missiles in recent years, despite complaints from the United States and other nations.
Denuclearization talks with the US stalled last fall. Kim warned the United States that it had until the end of that year to jump start the negotiations.
When that deadline came and went without any movement from Washington, Kim announced during a New Year’s Day message that his country would bolster its nuclear deterrent, and no longer be held to a self-imposed moratorium on major weapons testing (https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/23/world/north-korea-vows-increase-nuclear-war-deterrence/index.html).
Meanwhile in Jakarta, an international issue observer, Yitno Roto Suprayogitomo said North Korea’s nuclear denuclearization has not done completely because North Korea through their nuclear want to protect their territory and dignity especially against the US and allies.
“Nuclear and mass weapons problems can occur sometimes because the global peace condition could damage and somber if those seriously problems does not tackle as soon as possible. The global situation will run to safety place if every countries who have nuclear capacity including the US, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan, Iran and other countries must be stopped and disminished,” Yitno explained further.
The United States, said Yitno, after the outbreak of Covid-19 does not a single power country again across the planet, because Covid-19 has made national economic of the US has gone to deeply foreign debt trap and they need several years to recovery. “Because of that, the US does not drag North Korea to denuclearization of their nuclear capacity. It must be followed too by the US and other countries who have nuclear weapons,” Yitno closed the conversation (Red).