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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged company commanders to intensify training and sharpen combat readiness, calling it their "primary revolutionary task," state media reported Wednesday. He made the remark Tuesday at a photo session with participants in the Third Meeting of Company Leaders of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Pak Jong-chon, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK); Defense Minister Kim Song-gi; and KPA Chief of the General Staff Ri Yong-gil were with the leader. "The primary revolutionary task of the company leaders is to round off the combat preparations of their units for getting fully ready for fighting a war and the way for its implementation is to bring about a radical improvement in the strenuous and intensive training," Kim was quoted as saying by the KCNA. He said their loyalty and leadership should be demonstrated through successes in turning their units into "a-match-for-a-hundred ranks with firm revolutionary faith, patriotic spirit and matchless heroic mettle and fight

The U.S. administration has reiterated that it intends to transfer wartime operational control (OPCON) to Korea "when the agreed conditions have been met," amid Seoul's push to set a target year for the handover. "The United States intends to transfer wartime operational control to Korea when the agreed conditions have been met, which will ensure the safety and security of the people of Korea and U.S. forces stationed there," a U.S. administration official told Yonhap News Agency via email on Monday. The remarks came in response to a Yonhap inquiry regarding Korean Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul's comments that Seoul and Washington were coordinating on setting a target year for the OPCON transfer. "The United States policy on wartime operational control has been consistent for decades," the U.S. official added. During a parliamentary audit Monday (Korea time), Kang said Korea and the U.S. are closely coordinating on setting a target year for Seoul's retaking of wartime OPCON from Washington. "The Korean and U.S. authorities are closely coordinating on completing the full operational capa

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