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,

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on his officials to strengthen the regime's nuclear forces "without limitation" and complete preparations for war, Pyongyang's state media reported Monday.

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.