The Canada Brief

World · 10 d ago

Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader, in 2019

The Presidential Press and Information Office · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Kim Jong Un calls for the world's strongest army

"The main spirit of the meeting is to build the strongest army and accelerate the Korean-style military revolution."

— Kim Jong Un, via state media

The two-day meeting of company commanders in Pyongyang was the first gathering of the entire army since a party congress in February.

On Friday Seoul proposed military talks to clarify the border after a blast in the Demilitarized Zone injured South Korean soldiers. Pyongyang has not responded.