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N. Korea's Kim calls for combat readiness at photo session with army company leaders

SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged company com...

N. Korea's Kim calls for combat readiness at photo session with army company leaders

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has emphasized to army company leaders the need to boost training and sharpen combat readiness, stating it as their "primary revolutionary task," according to state media. At a photo session on Tuesday with key military officials, including Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Pak Jong-chon, Defense Minister Kim Song-gi, and KPA Chief of the General Staff Ri Yong-gil, Kim stressed the importance of enhancing training.

He emphasized that the way to prepare for potential war was to significantly improve the rigorous and intensive training of their troops. Kim urged the leaders to demonstrate their loyalty and leadership through success in making their units "a-match-for-a-hundred ranks" with unwavering revolutionary faith, patriotic spirit, and unmatched heroic spirit.

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