Pyongyang
\nNorth Korea said it will bolster its defense against the United States and evaluate \u201crestarting all temporally suspended activities,\u201d according to state media KCNA on Thursday.
\nThe announcement is a possible reference to its self-imposed moratorium on testing nuclear weapons, which has been in place since 2017.
\nThough Pyongyang is barred from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons under international law, it has continued developing the weapons in violation of the ban.
\nIn a report about a Politburo meeting held on Wednesday, KCNA reported the \u201chostile policy and military threat by the US have reached a danger line that can not be overlooked any more,\u201d and acknowledged the need to prepare for \u201ca long-term confrontation\u201d with the US.
\nThe report said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has instructed officials to bolster ways to \u201cefficiently control the hostile moves of the US\u201d and reconsider trust-building measures with the US.
\n\u201cIt gave an instruction to a sector concerned to reconsider in an overall scale the trust-building measures that we took on our own initiative on a preferential ground and to promptly examine the issue of restarting all temporally suspended activities,\u201d KCNA reported.
\nThe South Korean military is closely monitoring North Korea\u2019s activities following Thursday\u2019s report, according to Seoul\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Kim Jun-rak.
\nIt comes as North Korea has ramped up its missile tests during the month of January. Last week, the US announced sanctions on five North Korean individuals and one entity supporting the regime\u2019s ballistic missile related programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pyongyang North Korea said it will bolster its defense against the United States and evaluate \u201crestarting all temporally suspended activities,\u201d according to state media KCNA on Thursday. The announcement is a possible reference to its self-imposed moratorium on testing nuclear weapons, which has been in place since 2017. Though Pyongyang is barred from testing ballistic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n