{"id":21392,"date":"2026-05-18T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/21392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:18:15","slug":"north-koreas-kim-orders-defense-build-up-along-southern-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/21392\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s Kim Orders Defense Build-Up along Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1280757\/north-korea-s-kim-orders-defense-build-up-along-southern-border\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/n01280757-b.jpg\" alt=\"North Korea\u2019s Kim Orders Defense Build-Up along Southern Border\" title=\"North Korea\u2019s Kim Orders Defense Build-Up along Southern Border\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a defense build-up along the country\u2019s southern border during a meeting with top army commanders, state-run media reported Monday.Kim convened a meeting on Sunday with division and brigade commanders from across the military and discussed key military and political tasks, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of reinforcing frontline units guarding the southern border and turning the border area into an \u201cimpregnable fortress,\u201d KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasized the need to modernize military structures and strengthen key units \u201cmilitarily and technically\u201d as part of efforts to enhance war deterrence.<\/p>\n<p>Kim called for reorganizing the military\u2019s training system and expanding practical combat drills in line with evolving warfare trends and the rapid modernization of military technology.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged commanders to maintain a high level of combat readiness and heighten awareness of North Korea\u2019s \u201cprincipal enemy,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by Ri Yong-gil, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People\u2019s Army, and Pak Jong-chon, an adviser to the Ministry of National Defense.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a defense build-up along the country\u2019s southern border&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4377,14980,8011,7043,14979,14987,14984,1672,14985,5205,1518,1516,141,31,4381,171,14982,7524,14986,1694,4174,34,14983,14978,5221,14989,14981,14988,3706,5206,2967,7943,4572,4575],"class_list":["post-21392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-a","tag-along","tag-army","tag-border","tag-build","tag-commanders","tag-countrys","tag-defense","tag-during","tag-islam","tag-jong","tag-kim","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korea","tag-koreas","tag-korean","tag-leader","tag-media","tag-meeting","tag-monday","tag-north","tag-north-korea","tag-ordered","tag-orders","tag-reported","tag-run","tag-southern","tag-state","tag-the","tag-times","tag-top","tag-un","tag-up","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}