Last week, during a planning meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, Kim called the United States "the most reactionary state that regards anti-communism as its invariable state policy," adding that the U.S.-South Korea-Japan security partnership is expanding into “a nuclear military bloc for aggression,” AP News reports. "This reality clearly shows to which direction we should advance and what we should do and how," he said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
The agency said that Kim's speech on the final day of the meeting Friday "clarified the strategy for the toughest anti-U.S. counteraction to be launched aggressively” by North Korea. It did not specify exactly what the strategy would be but said Kim tasked his cabinet with strengthening the North Korean military by upgrading its defense technology and improving "the mental toughness of North Korean soldiers," the outlet stated.
Trump had met with Kim three times during his first term to discuss North Korea's nuclear program, successfully easing historical tensions between their homelands. Experts have said that this type of diplomacy will likely not happen immediately upon Trump's return as he focuses on the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, in which North Korea has been supporting Putin and Russia.
