North Korea leader Kim Jong-un presides meeting over growing n-war deterrence

Also discussed at the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party were important military steps and organizational and political measures to further bolster up the overall armed forces, according to Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

"Set forth at the meeting were new policies for further increasing the nuclear war deterrence of the country and putting the strategic armed forces on a high alert operation in line with the general requirements for the building and development of the armed forces of the country," the KCNA was quoted as saying by the Yonhap News Agency.

It did not elaborate what the "new policies" for nuclear deterrence were. "Taken at the meeting were crucial measures for considerably increasing the firepower strike ability of the artillery pieces of the Korean People's Army," it added. (IANS)

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