(Seoul) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un outlined lines for “immediate military action” at a high-level national security meeting amid heightened tensions with South Korea, reports said. state media on Tuesday.
Published yesterday at 8:24 p.m.
Kim Jong-un “set the direction of immediate military action and outlined important tasks to be accomplished within the framework of war deterrence and exercising the right to self-defense,” the news agency reported. North Korean official press KCNA.
The country’s top security officials, including the army chief, and the ministers of national security and defense, attended the meeting on Monday.
This comes against a backdrop of strong tensions with South Korea.
North Korea, which accused Seoul of sending drones carrying propaganda leaflets to Pyongyang, sent reinforcements to the border and warned that one more drone would be considered “a declaration of war”
“Our army is closely monitoring the situation and stands fully ready to respond to the North’s provocations,” Lee Seong-joon, a spokesperson for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, reacted Monday, reproaching the North for its accusations. shameless.”
PHOTO AHN YOUNG-JOON, ASSOCIATED PRESS
South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, October 14, 2024.
The North Korean regime complains of several drone flights since October, which have dropped propaganda leaflets on the capital full of “inflammatory rumors and nonsense”, and accuses Seoul of being responsible.
A report on the enemy’s “serious provocations” was presented at the meeting, and Mr Kim “expressed a firm political and military stance”, KCNA reported.
South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun initially denied that Seoul was behind the drone flights. The Joint Chiefs of Staff later said it would not “confirm whether the North Korean allegations [étaient] true or not.
Militant groups in the South routinely send propaganda and U.S. currency to the North, usually by balloon.
While the two Koreas remain technically at war, the deadly 1950-53 conflict resulting in an armistice and not a peace treaty, the United Nations Korea Command, which oversees the armistice, said it was aware of the accusations North Koreans.
“The command is currently investigating in strict accordance with the armistice agreement,” he said.
