North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated US security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to bolster his nuclear weapons program further, state media reported Sunday.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un criticizes the trilateral military cooperation between the United States, Japan and South Korea for only increasing tensions

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated US security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster his nuclear weapons programme, state media reported.

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticised trilateral military cooperation among the United States, Japan and South Korea for raising tensions in the region and vowed countermeasures,

Kim said that US deployments of nuclear strategic assets, war games, and military cooperation with Japan and South Korea were creating a regional military imbalance and posing a serious threat to the security environment,

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that North Korean soldiers have been “brought in again” to fight at the frontline in the Kursk region after reports that foreign soldiers were withdrawn following their mounting losses.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticised trilateral military cooperation among the United States, Japan and South Korea for raising tensions in the region and vowed countermeasures, including the further development of nuclear forces.