North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over an enlarged meeting of the ruling party¡¯s Central Military Commission to decide on ¡°important organizational and political measures and military steps to bolster¡± the country¡¯s armed forces, state-run media reported Sunday.
The meeting came amid rising tensions and ahead of the looming year-end deadline set by Kim for the United States to lift crushing sanctions or make other concessions in the deadlocked denuclearization negotiations.
Kim discussed ¡°the complicated internal and external situation¡± and said that ¡°important organizational and political measures and military steps to bolster up the overall armed forces of the country¡± would be decided at the meeting, the North¡¯s official Korean Central News Agency reported.
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