North Korean air force to gain ‘strategic assets’ amid heightened tensions in peninsula
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says the air force will be entrusted with ‘a new important duty’ and play a role in nuclear war deterrence
The country’s expectations for the air force, which “will play a role in the exercise of the nuclear war deterrent”, are truly “great”, state media KCNA cited Kim as saying.
“The Air Force should resolutely repulse and control all sorts of espionage acts and possible military provocations of the enemies,” Kim said, according to KCNA.
“The Air Force will be given new strategic military assets and entrusted with a new important duty,” he said in a speech without elaborating, according to state news agency KCNA.
“The Air Force should resolutely repulse and control all sorts of espionage acts and possible military provocations of the enemies.”
Dressed in long leather coats, Kim and his daughter watched an air show to mark the anniversary and toured a display of aircraft such as an airborne early-warning aircraft that North Korea unveiled earlier this year, state media photographs showed.
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