"Kim Jong Un Directs Military to Strengthen War Strategies in North Korea"

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the military to enhance its war plans amid escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, as the US and South Korea prepare for joint military drills. Kim directed a meeting of the country's central military commission to discuss strengthening the army's readiness for war and establishing offensive military countermeasures. He condemned the US and South Korea's war drills and called for stepping up North Korea's war preparations, including securing more powerful strike means and conducting actual war drills. Kim also dismissed the chief of the General Staff and appointed a replacement.