North Korean leader Kim Jong-un calls on the military to prepare for war

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his country’s military to focus all efforts on completing war preparations, state news agency KCNA reported on Monday.

KCNA reported that Kim described the Korean Peninsula as “the world’s largest hotspot” in a speech he delivered to battalion commanders in Pyongyang on Friday.

Kim also accused the US and South Korea of ​​bringing tensions on the peninsula “to the worst phase in history,” KCNA reported.

On Saturday, the Financial Times reported, based on sources, that North Korea is now supporting Russia not only with soldiers and ammunition but also with heavy artillery in its war against Ukraine.

According to the British newspaper’s report, about fifty M1989 Koksan self-propelled howitzers and nearly twenty multiple rocket launchers produced in North Korea have arrived in Russia in recent weeks.

The US State Department recently claimed that thousands of North Korean soldiers are actively fighting alongside Russian forces in the border area near Kursk, where they are battling Ukrainian forces.

South Korean intelligence reports further suggest that North Korea has sent more than 10,000 soldiers to Russia, in addition to supplying artillery ammunition to the Russian armed forces.

Increasing military cooperation between the two countries has been strengthened by a recently signed agreement, which includes a mutual defense pact.