{"id":7258,"date":"2024-11-18T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/north-koreas-kim-urges-military-to-prepare-for-war\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:25:15","slug":"north-koreas-kim-urges-military-to-prepare-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/north-koreas-kim-urges-military-to-prepare-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#039;s Kim urges military to prepare for war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5252713.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Kim gave a speech to battalion commanders and political instructors on Friday, state media KCNA reported, adding that he urged the military to focus efforts on completing war preparations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He ardently called upon all the participants to go all out for bringing about substantial and fundamental improvement in improving their capabilities for fighting an actual war,&#8221; KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>Kim criticized the United States for its updated nuclear strategies with South Korea and increased military cooperation with Japan, which he referred to as an &#8220;Asian NATO&#8221; that escalates regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Kim had vowed that the country would &#8220;exponentially&#8221; expand its nuclear arsenal in response to &#8220;the reckless expansion&#8221; of a US-led regional military bloc.<\/p>\n<p>He has often blamed North Korea&#8217;s increasing weapons arsenal on the US.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/224590\/North-Korea-s-Kim-urges-military-to-prepare-for-war\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim gave a speech to battalion commanders and political instructors on Friday, state media KCNA reported, adding that he urged the military to focus efforts on completing war preparations. &#8220;He ardently called upon all the participants to go all out for bringing about substantial and fundamental improvement in improving their capabilities for fighting an actual &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}