North Korea’s Kim urges improved military capabilities for war

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un urged the country’s military to improve its war-fighting capabilities in a speech last week, state media’s CNA said Monday, prompting Pyongyang to send thousands of troops to Russia. After Kim addressed a conference of battalion commanders. Political instructors met in Pyongyang on Friday, during which they discussed increasing political and military strength and combat capability.He described the Korean Peninsula as the world’s biggest hotspot, saying that its military confrontation with the US and its allies, including South Korea and North Korea, had pushed tensions to “the worst period in history”. “Participants should make every effort to make substantial and fundamental improvements in their capabilities to fight a real war,” KCNA said. Of criticismUS President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yul and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on tsidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit condemned North Korea and Russia’s decision to escalate the war in Ukraine to dangerous levels. In Peru, the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use US-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, sources told Reuters, marking a significant shift in policy and Russia’s response to North Korea’s deployment of ground troops. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has said North Korean troops have suffered casualties in clashes with his country’s forces. is