North Korea would bolster its defences against the United States and consider restarting 'all temporally-suspended activities,' state media KCNA reported Thursday, an apparent reference to a self-imposed moratorium on testing its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a meeting of the powerful politburo of the ruling Workers' Party on Wednesday to discuss "important policy issues," including countermeasures over "hostile" U.S. policy, the official KCNA news agency said.
"We should make more thorough preparation for a long-term confrontation with the U.S. imperialists," the politburo concluded. South Korea's defence ministry said it is monitoring the North's winter drills while maintaining readiness posture, calling the recent missile tests "serious threats." "It's possible that the situation could go back to the vicious cycle of provocations and sanctions we saw in 2017," he said.
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