A firing practice contest among artillery sub-units of large combined units of the Korean People’s Army was conducted on July 23 amid the hot wind of training sweeping the entire army to further consolidate the militant might of the elite revolutionary army.

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, oversaw the artillery firing contest.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK.

He was greeted on the spot by Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, and other commanding officers of the General Staff and military and political officers of the large combined units at all levels of the KPA.

He heard a report on the preparations for the contest on the spot and emphasized the importance of the contest to be conducted according to the plan of the General Staff.

The contest was conducted in the way of deciding ranks by examining the capability of each artillery sub-unit for performing the night march, combat deployment and firing attack on an unexpected enemy target in coastal regional environment and conditions in summer, making them master the combat methods in modern artillery warfare and judging the result of fulfilling the firing missions.

The commanders of the large combined units commanded the firing of their sub-units.

The artillery sub-units, which received the order to fire, fully displayed the capability that they had firmly developed to master the combat manual of our style and punish the enemy at one blow, thus hitting the suddenly-set marine targets in the set time.

Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction over the contest that was conducted like an actual war and its result.