Kim Jong-un calls for ‘positive and offensive’ security policy

North Korea’s leader has called for “positive and offensive measures” to ensure the country’s “sovereignty and security”, state media said.

Kim Jong-un was speaking at a multi-day gathering of party leaders in Pyongyang – unusual for this time of the year.

The comments come amid concerns that the North could end negotiations on denuclearisation with the US, and restart major weapons testing.

The US has said it would be “extraordinarily disappointed” by that.

Pyongyang threatened earlier this year to take a “new way”, if Washington failed to offer concessions in the nuclear talks by the end of the year.

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