North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the country’s armed forces to “intensify practical actual-war drills ensuring the victory in a war” during a visit to a major operational training base in the western region of the Korean People’s Army on Wednesday.
Kim inspected the training facilities and “guided the actual maneuvers of units,” state-run North Korean media reported on Thursday.
“To contain the constant threat of the enemies with overwhelming force … and correctly carry out the important mission in contingency, our army should always make more exact demands on itself in keeping with the aspect of changing and developing modern warfare and steadily intensify the actual war drills aimed at rapidly improving its combat capabilities for perfect war preparedness.”
The North Korean leader’s statement came after Pyongyang criticised ongoing joint US-South Korean military exercises in the region.
During the inspection, Kim “appreciated the fact that all the elements have been built in a practical way so that various trainings can be conducted in a high intensity under the circumstances like an actual war,” according to local media.
