N Korea says army must develop to be able to beat US

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the army to develop to ensure it wins any confrontation with the United States, North Korea’s news agency said on Sunday, a day after US President Barack Obama warned the North of its military might. Kim led a meeting of Central Military Commission and “set forth important tasks for further developing the Korean People’s Army and ways to do so”, KCNA news agency said. “He stressed the need to enhance the function and role of the political organs of the army if it is to preserve the proud history and tradition of being the army of the party, win one victory after another in the confrontation with the US and creditably perform the mission as a shock force and standard-bearer in building a thriving nation.” Obama said on Saturday on a visit to Seoul, where the US army has a large presence, that the US did not use its military might to “impose things” on others, but that it would use that might if necessary to defend South Korea from any attack by the North. North and South Korea are still technically at war after their 1950-53 civil conflict ended in a mere truce, according to Reuters.