The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un ,
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the
State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the
Destroyer "Kang Kon" of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, which has
entered the shakedown for assessing its capability of executing
operations, and observed its navigation test on June 4.
He was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, Secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Sik, First Vice-Department Director of the Central Committee of the WPK, Pak Kwang Sop, Commander of the Navy, Pak Jong Chon, Advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Kim Kang Il, Vice-Minister of National Defence and Director of the General Armaments Bureau, Jang Chang Ha, General Director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, President of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Myong Son, Director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, commanding officers of the Navy and senior officials in the field of shipbuilding.
ComradeKim Jong Un
boarded the Destroyer "Kang Kon" and learned about the actual
conditions of various combat duty spaces and elements of the destroyer
including the combined control centre, the plan for the navigation test
and the phased schedule of the test of the warship's weapon systems.
A navigation test was conducted to assess different maneuvering elements of the destroyer with ComradeKim Jong Un on board the warship.
ComradeKim Jong Un
praised the sailors for their high ability to operate the warship and
expressed satisfaction over the cruise and high-speed maneuvering
systems of the warship whose maneuverability is very good to meet
operational requirements.
Referring to the global trend of the developing shipbuilding industry and the structural features of warship design, he clarified the important tasks for further perfecting the warship control system in our own way so as to meet the requirements for the performance of operational mission of our Navy.
It is possible to deter war and defend peace only when we possess substantial and powerful military muscle capable of exercising military sovereignty in a responsible manner in any space of the ground, the sea and the air, he said, adding this is the invariable view of the WPK and its national defence policy. In particular, the issue of rapidly developing and strengthening the naval force of the DPRK into a force capable of reliably taking charge of a part of the nuclear war deterrent and into a group that can deal a deadly blow at the enemy any moment under the water or on the water is a matter which the WPK regards as the most important core task in the new five-year national defence development policy, he said.
ComradeKim Jong Un
expressed great trust and expectation that the vast plans for
bolstering up the warship force, including the development and
production of underwater secret weapons and the building of
10,000-tonnage destroyers under the five-year plan for modernizing the
Navy approved by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, would be surely carried
out by our reliable and powerful defence science research group,
self-supporting shipbuilding industry and competent and intelligent
workers in the munitions industry.
He warmly encouraged the officials, scientists and technicians of warship and weapon system research organs, hoping that they will successfully conduct the shakedown for assessing the operational executive capability of the destroyer and put the destroyers "Choe Hyon" and "Kang Kon" into commission for the Navy as soon as possible with an honourable sense of obligation and high sense of responsibility.
He was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, Secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Sik, First Vice-Department Director of the Central Committee of the WPK, Pak Kwang Sop, Commander of the Navy, Pak Jong Chon, Advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Kim Kang Il, Vice-Minister of National Defence and Director of the General Armaments Bureau, Jang Chang Ha, General Director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, President of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Myong Son, Director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, commanding officers of the Navy and senior officials in the field of shipbuilding.
Comrade
A navigation test was conducted to assess different maneuvering elements of the destroyer with Comrade
Comrade
Referring to the global trend of the developing shipbuilding industry and the structural features of warship design, he clarified the important tasks for further perfecting the warship control system in our own way so as to meet the requirements for the performance of operational mission of our Navy.
It is possible to deter war and defend peace only when we possess substantial and powerful military muscle capable of exercising military sovereignty in a responsible manner in any space of the ground, the sea and the air, he said, adding this is the invariable view of the WPK and its national defence policy. In particular, the issue of rapidly developing and strengthening the naval force of the DPRK into a force capable of reliably taking charge of a part of the nuclear war deterrent and into a group that can deal a deadly blow at the enemy any moment under the water or on the water is a matter which the WPK regards as the most important core task in the new five-year national defence development policy, he said.
Comrade
He warmly encouraged the officials, scientists and technicians of warship and weapon system research organs, hoping that they will successfully conduct the shakedown for assessing the operational executive capability of the destroyer and put the destroyers "Choe Hyon" and "Kang Kon" into commission for the Navy as soon as possible with an honourable sense of obligation and high sense of responsibility.