North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says conditions on the Korean Peninsula are extremely severe.

The North's Korean Central News Agency quoted Kim as making the remark on Tuesday during a speech before commanding officers of the Korean People’s Army.
 
Kim said conditions are this way even though he took realistic measures and proposed the two Koreas stop slandering each other. He said he issued the measures and the proposal with the hope of opening a path to improved South-North ties.
 
He also denounced the U.S. and what he called "other hostile forces" for ignoring the North’s good intentions. He said such forces are carrying out schemes to politically annihilate, economically isolate and militarily crush to death the North.
 
Kim said such severe conditions on the peninsula demonstrate that the U.S. and hostile forces have not changed and will not change their evil intentions toward the North. He said the North’s military and people will never tolerate and destroy hostile policies against North Korea.