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, convened a meeting of the commanding officers of the divisions and brigades of the entire army on May 17 and met them.

Present there were Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, and Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK.

The commanding officers were filled with great excitement as they were to meet Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un at the sacred headquarters building of the Party Central Committee which the KPA service personnel have always cherished in their minds at every post in the sky, ground and sea of the country.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared, the commanding officers broke into stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" looking up to the outstanding leader of the revolution who is dynamically guiding the inexhaustible build-up and development of the army to glory and victory with his distinguished commanding philosophy and art of leadership.

Highly appreciating the extraordinary services of the commanding officers who are leading the combined units while devoting their sincere efforts to the country and the people, he warmly encouraged them.

He met the commanding officers of the combined units at all levels of the entire army and had a talk with them on a series of important military issues.

Stressing that the commanders of the combined units have very important duties, he said that the historic assignment to develop the KPA into the strongest army in the world has been entrusted just to the division and brigade commanders. And he referred to the main orientation in carrying out the military and political tasks at present.

Reiterating that the training for perfecting combat readiness is the main task of the army, he advanced a policy of readjusting the training system and intensifying practical training in keeping with the changing aspects of modern warfare and the trend of the development of the KPA.

Pointing out that an institutional measure would be taken for updating the army in terms of military organization and military technology in the future, he stressed that the responsibility and role of the commanding officers are very important in correctly implementing it.

He referred to the need to step up also the projects for defining afresh the concept of operations in all spheres in keeping with the rapid modernization of the military and technical equipment of the KPA and for applying it to the combat training of the units.