Kim confident North Korean air force ‘can beat back the enemy’
North Korean television showed photographs of Kim touring Flying Unit 887 on Thursday, a day after US-led forces unseated Saddam Hussein, whose country Washington has labelled part of an "axis of evil" with North Korea and Iran.
"Seeing the pilots fully ready to cope with the moves of the enemy for aggression, he noted with great satisfaction that they are always maintaining a high degree of revolutionary vigilance and fully prepared to courageously beat back the enemy any time if he comes in to attack," the official KCNA news agency said.