North Korea’s Kim orders training of world’s ‘strongest’ military
Nigerianewslite North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Credit: AFP. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged his military to train to become the strongest in the world at a two-day meeting of company commanders in Pyongyang, state media said on Saturday. Kim’s call for what he dubbed a “Korean-style military revolution” came the same week Seoul’s military proposed talks to clarify the border after an explosion inside the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) further strained inter-Korean ties. Seoul and Pyongyang remain technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The Pyongyang event, held Thursday and Friday, was aimed at developing a plan “to train the strongest armed forces in the world,” Kim said, according to the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA). He also called for “all the companies” of the North’s army to be “turned into a strong elite unit in military and technical aspects and consolidated into perfect combat forces”. KCNA said it was ...
