North Korea: Leader Kim Calls For More Practical, Offensive War Deterrence.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is calling for strengthening the country’s war deterrence in a “more practical and offensive” manner to counter what it called moves of aggression by the U.S. and South Korea.

Kim made the comment at an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission to discuss ongoing efforts to boost the country’s war deterrent to “cope with the escalating moves of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet traitors to unleash a war of aggression,” the state media said.

North Korea has been reacting angrily to a recent series of the allies’ joint military exercises, which KCNA says were intended to prepare for “an all-out war” and forced Pyongyang to explore powerful practical action, including military options.