Kim Seeks to Boost War Defenses, Cuts Link with South Korea
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chairs a military meeting
- Pyongyang cuts off communication links with South Korea
A news broadcast with an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending a military parade held in Pyongyang, at Yongsan railway station in Seoul.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for “practical and offensive” war capabilities as his state issued a fresh warning to the US and cut communications links with South Korea used to reduce tensions on their heavily armed border.
Kim told a meeting of military officials that he wanted to step up the country’s defenses due to “the ever-worsening security on the Korean Peninsula,” the official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday.