North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country's nuclear weapons capacity "without limit" and completing war preparations against the United States and its allies, state media reported Monday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his country's military to focus all efforts on completing war preparations, state news agency KCNA reported on Monday. KCNA reported Kim as describing the Korean peninsula as "the world's biggest hotspot,

The dictator's warning comes after South Korea said last week that North Korean troops had already begun 'engaging in combat operations' alongside Russian forces near the border with Ukraine.

During a conference of battalion commanders and political instructors in Pyongyang, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un urged soldiers to enhance their war-fighting capabilities. He stated that the Korean Peninsula has become "the greatest flashpoint in the world.