North Korea’s Kim Jong Un fires top general, orders military to step up war plans

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HONG KONG — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed his country's top general and ordered the military to step up war preparations “in an offensive way,” state media reported Thursday. Kim held a meeting of the central military commission in the country's capital, Pyongyang, on Wednesday and discussed plans against its enemy, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. It did not say who the enemy was. Kim pointed at Seoul and its surrounding area on a map in front of the uniformed generals, pictures released by the agency showed. Gen. Pak Su Il was also removed from his...