North Korean state media on December 22 reported that Kim Jong Un “guided” the “Third Expanded Meeting of the Seventh Workers Party of Korea [WPK] Central Military Commission [CMC]” held on an unknown date. 

At the meeting, which likely was held on the previous day, Kim briefed the meeting attendees on the “prevailing complex situation at home and abroad.” The meeting discussed and decided on ways to further strengthen the DPRK armed forces “militarily and politically” and improve the “overall national defense work”; “core issues for continuously developing self-defensive national defense capabilities in an accelerated manner”; and organizational