‘Essential task’
The navy had been the weakest part of North Korea’s military forces, Kim said, adding that its capabilities would now be “something incredible beyond imagination.”
“Building a modernised naval base has emerged as a desperate and essential task,” Kim said.
He said officials of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee discussed plans to build new naval bases at a meeting on Monday.
The most important change for the navy would be a shift in its status, role and scope of operations, Kim said, without elaborating.
The navy’s nuclearisation is “advancing along its own course,” contributing to the country’s nuclear deterrence, he said.
