Kim Jong Un Calls for Stronger North Korea Nuclear Deterrent

North Korea Leader Kim Emerges From Almost Three-Week Absence
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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un, making his first public statement in three weeks, ordered military leaders to increase the country’s “nuclear war deterrence,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday.

The meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea also discussed putting the nation’s strategic armed forces on high alert, and increasing the standing army’s firepower.