Overview

• Rodong Sinmun accused decades of U.S.-South Korea exercises of demonstrating Washington’s unchanging threat against North Korea.
• The newspaper charged the U.S. with maintaining near-constant deployment of strategic assets to worsen security conditions and stage provocative acts.
• Pyongyang warned that any rollback of defense efforts could endanger national security and citizens’ livelihoods.
• Rodong Sinmun declared that the U.S.-led unipolar order is fracturing and reshaping the balance of power in East Asia.
• Kim Jong-un convened an expanded 12th plenary session of the Workers’ Party Central Committee from June 21 to 23 to reaffirm strategic policy direction.