Kim Jong Un tells committee North Korea must cooperate with 'anti-imperialist' countries against US

 North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un spoke at a key meeting of the rogue nation's ruling party, underscoring his willingness to engage with foreign countries against US interests in the region.

Speaking from the stage and in support of large red demonstrations bearing the symbol of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim offered a "direction of struggle" for the coming year.

"He set militant tasks for the People's Army and the munitions industry, nuclear weapons and civil defense sectors to further intensify war preparations, based on a thorough analysis of the grave political and military situation in the Korean Peninsula. [the] History "to unprecedented extremes due to the anti-DPRK confrontational moves by the US and its vassal forces," the Korean Central News Agency reported.

The abbreviation "DPRK" stands for "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", which is the official name of the country.

The KCNA report further stated, "[Kim] called on the WPK to expand and develop relations of strategic cooperation with anti-imperialist independent countries and to increasingly dynamically carry out anti-imperialist joint action and struggle at the international level. clarified the independent principle of. "Indicated a change in the geopolitical situation of the world and the orientation of external affairs and work towards the South."

KCNA is a North Korean state media outlet, owned, operated and published by the ruling authoritarian government.

North Korea has worked extensively in the past year to increase cooperation with its regional allies Russia and the People's Republic of China.

Kim has been in communication with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin – to meet them face-to-face, the supreme leader made a rare trip outside the country by train.

The Central Committee of the North Korean Workers' Party gathered in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a multi-day plenum to review policies for the new year.

Kim had already spoken at a party meeting in Pyongyang, where he called 2023 "a year of great change and great transformation" and "a year of utmost importance."

He said on Tuesday that last year North Korea achieved "eye-opening victories and events in all areas of socialist construction and strengthening national power."

While North Korea's supreme leader has historically been expected to deliver a New Year's Day speech to the people, Kim has delivered an annual address at Workers' Party meetings since 2020.