North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared that the country’s military will “widen” its “fighting front” this year, speaking during a visit to the defense ministry on the army’s founding anniversary Sunday.

“This year is a grand year of transformation, in which our military’s fighting front must widen further and we must struggle more boldly,” Kim said, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday.

The DPRK military’s capabilities will also be “further enhanced … in the coming five years” due to decisions that are “soon” to be announced at the Ninth Party Congress, he reportedlyadded. State