Kim Jong Un meets military officers

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STORY: North Korea's state-run television KRT on Thursday broadcast video footage of Kim Jong Un meeting the county's military officers, amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Kim was filmed having an outdoors meeting with commanding officers of the combined units of the Korea People's Army (KPA) and delivering a speech on Tuesday (April 1).

Kim had said the current situation on the peninsula is "grave" and that his military will "crush the hostile U.S. policy" against Pyongyang, the North's official news agency KCNA reported.

KCNA also said military officers pledged to guard its leader at the meeting which took place at Mount Paektu, an inactive volcano on the border with China, described in national folklore as his father's birthplace.

The meeting was held days after Pyongyang threatened to conduct what it called "a new form of nuclear test".

A drone South Korea found last week crashed near the border with the

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