North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a set of key policy-setting meetings with the country's ruling party last week ahead of the new year, the North's state-run television channel KRT reported on Sunday (December 29).

The meetings between party and government officials decided that North Korea would launch the "toughest" strategy to counteract the United States for its security and national interests, the report said, without elaborating.

The alliance between South Korea, the U.S. and Japan has expanded to a "nuclear military bloc" and South Korea has become an "anti-communist outpost" for the U.S., state media report added.

The set of meetings held from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27 also reviewed the handling of floods earlier this year, including the evacuation plan that brought affected residents to the capital, Pyongyang, according to the report.

(Production: Jisoo Kim, Minwoo Park)