The irresistible might of Juche Korea, which is confidently accomplishing the great cause of building a rich country with a strong army in a valiant spirit and with dignity that no one can defy under the ever-victorious leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, is impressively ushering in a brilliant heyday of the Navy of the DPRK while powerfully raising the anchor for building a maritime power in the 21st century.

The new-type multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon, born as an aggregate of self-reliant defence technology and a new symbol of the country’s sea defence capability, came to be formally commissioned into the Navy of the Korean People's Army after successfully concluding the shakedown for assessing its capability of executing operations in one year and two months.

The commissioning of the powerful battleship, which will sail along the course of defending the sacred maritime sovereignty and national interests of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with an important mission of implementing the national defence strategy of the Party Central Committee and exercising the war deterrent, is a meaningful indication of the radical qualitative strengthening of the Navy of the DPRK with the strongest combat force which has been put on the most powerful and ultra-modern level of the Korean style.

The commissioning ceremony of the destroyer Choe Hyon took place at Nampho Port on June 23.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, attended the ceremony.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with ardent reverence for Comrade Kim Jong Un, who provided great strength for defending justice and peace to the Navy of the DPRK defending the core of national sovereignty while energetically guiding the sacred historic cause for the radical growth of the national defence capabilities, and the great emotion and joy of the participants visualizing the bright future of the maritime power.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the commissioning ceremony, where the powerful warship in the new era of the DPRK was at anchor imposingly, amid the playing of the welcome music, the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers out of their highest tribute and boundless gratitude to him, the great defender of the glorious country and invincible and iron-willed brilliant commander.

The KPA Navy expressed the greatest trust and loyalty to him.

He was greeted courteously by leading officials in the fields of defence and shipbuilding industries and major commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and the Navy.

Present at the ceremony were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, other members of the Party central leadership, commanding officers of the KPA large combined units, officers and soldiers of the Navy, officers and men of the destroyer, discharged Navy generals and workers, scientists, technicians and officials in the field of the shipbuilding industry.