North Korea will launch its “toughest” strategy to counter the United States, state media said on Sunday, reporting on a major party meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un.
The nuclear-armed state held a five-day party meeting last week as part of a campaign to set the country’s direction for 2025, the official Korean Central News Agency reported in a lengthy English dispatch.
“The United States is the most reactionary state that regards anti-communism as its immutable state policy,” the report said.
It criticized the growing relationship between South Korea, the US and Japan, saying it has “expanded into a nuclear military bloc prone to aggression”.
It also said that South Korea “has become a completely anti-communist outpost of the United States”.
“This reality clearly shows where we should move and what and how we should do,” KCNA said.
Against this backdrop, Kim’s speech to top officials “clarified the strategy of aggressively launching the toughest anti-US action”, the report said, without giving details.
The meeting reviewed the response to widespread flooding earlier this year, and also included a resolution to boost relations with “friendly” countries.
Such party meetings and Kim’s speeches to officials are commonly used by Pyongyang to make major policy announcements.
The KCNA report comes after Seoul’s military claimed more than a thousand North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded since they entered the war in Ukraine under a military agreement between Pyongyang and Moscow.
North Korea and Russia have strengthened their military ties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
A historic defense agreement between Pyongyang and Moscow – which was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea in June – came into force this month.
Putin described it as a “leading document”.
North Korean state media said Friday that Putin sent a New Year’s message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying, “Bilateral relations between our two countries have grown since our talks in Pyongyang in June.”
Ukraine’s allies have called Pyongyang’s increased involvement in Russia’s war in Ukraine a “dangerous escalation” of the conflict.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
