North Korea’s ruling party this week agreed on a series of measures to further strengthen the country’s military and improve national security, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday.

DPRK leader Kim Jong Un presided over the first Enlarged Meeting of the 7th Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), state media reported.

“The meeting discussed and decided on a series of organizational measures to further strengthen the revolutionary army of the Party militarily and politically and improve the overall work for defending the country as required by the developing revolution,” KCNA said in