{"id":20590,"date":"2026-05-18T07:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/kim-jong-un-orders-north-korea-to-turn-border-into-impregnable-fortress\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:16:37","slug":"kim-jong-un-orders-north-korea-to-turn-border-into-impregnable-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/kim-jong-un-orders-north-korea-to-turn-border-into-impregnable-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un orders North Korea to turn border into \u2018impregnable fortress\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEOUL, May 18 — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called on top military officials to bolster front-line units and turn the southern border into an “impregnable fortress”, state media reported today.<\/p>\n

Kim gave the instruction at a meeting yesterday where a photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) showed him presiding over commanding military officers wearing full dress uniform.<\/p>\n

The North Korea leader told the military officials that a “great change” would be made in an effort to deter war and that the commanding officers should raise their “outlook on the arch enemy”, an apparent reference to South Korea.<\/p>\n

Kim “set forth plans for … strengthening the first-line units and other major units in military and technical aspects as an important decision to more thoroughly deter war”, the KCNA report said.<\/p>\n

The plans, which experts say appeared informed by developments in Russia’s war with Ukraine, come at a low point in relations with South Korea and Pyongyang unresponsive to Seoul’s repeated offers for dialogue.<\/p>\n

The meeting took place the same day the North Korean women’s football team landed in South Korea – the first such visit in eight years, which raised hopes of a slight thaw in frosty ties.<\/p>\n

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Kim also talked about the ruling party’s “policy of territorial defence on strengthening the first-line units in the southern border and turning the border line into an impregnable fortress”, according to KCNA.<\/p>\n

Projects to modernise the military “should be stepped up to newly define the concept of operations in all spheres”, he was also quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Hong Min, a senior analyst at Korea Institute for National Unification, said the instructions reflected lessons learnt from Russia’s war against Ukraine, in which Pyongyang has supported Moscow by providing troops.<\/p>\n

“This phrase reflects awareness of drone warfare, precision strikes, electronic warfare and multi-domain battlefields observed in the Ukraine war and Middle East conflicts,” he told AFP.<\/p>\n

Kim’s plans also “suggests a multi-domain operational concept extending beyond land, sea and air to include underwater, space, electronic and cyber domains.” — AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SEOUL, May 18 — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called on top military officials to bolster front-line units and turn the southern border into an “impregnable fortress”, state media reported today. Kim gave the instruction at a meeting yesterday where a photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) showed him presiding over…<\/p>\n

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