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 launched into the shakedown for assessing its ability to carry out operations, and inspected 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 deputy department director of the WPK Central Committee, 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 warship building.

Comrade Kim Jong Un boarded the destroyer Kang Kon and learned about the actual conditions of various combat duty spaces and elements including the control centre, the plan for the navigation test and the phased schedule of the test of the warship's weapon systems.

The navigation test was conducted to assess different manoeuvring elements of the destroyer in his presence.

He praised the sailors for their high ability to operate the warship and expressed satisfaction over the cruise and high-speed manoeuvring systems of the warship whose manoeuvrability is very good enough to meet operational requirements.