North Korean state media in a report on Monday said that leader Kim Jong-un supervised an airborne landing training while emphasizing the need to improve the country's war preparedness. Kim's "field guidance" was reported a day after South Korea and the US decided to put off their wartime air exercises to encourage North Korea to return to the negotiation table for its denuclearization, reports Yonhap News agency.

Kim watched "an airborne landing training of sharpshooter sub-units of the Air and Anti-Aircraft Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA)", Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in the report. "It is necessary to wage a drill without notice under the simulated conditions of real war like this and examine it, not being affected by rule and formality, and thus make it an opportunity for improving the preparedness of KPA units for war and examining and training them," Kim was quoted as saying.