The outstanding leadership of the ever-victorious Workers' Party of Korea leading the sacred and historic cause of building a rich country with a strong army to great victory and steady prosperity is ushering in an era of radical development of national defence, the greatest heyday of the military muscle of the DPRK when the absolute strength of our state and people is proudly put on the highest peak of the world.

The exhibition Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Development-2026 was held with splendour on October 29, adding another brilliant page to the history of the struggle for steadily boosting the modernity and military and technological strength of the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

On display at the exhibition were combat systems showing the latest achievements made in the field of unmanned aeronautical technology and the prospect of its development, including various kinds of strategic and operational and tactical multi-purpose drones and suicide attack drones.

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, attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

He was greeted courteously by leading officials in the field of the munitions industry and the Ministry of National Defence.

All the participants paid the highest tribute to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the ever-victorious, iron-willed brilliant commander who has illuminated the clear path to the modernization of the armed forces with his outstanding military strategic ideas, far-sighted wisdom and energetic leadership and vigorously guided the efforts for putting the military and technological might of our army on the highest level.

Present there were secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, other members of the Party central leadership, leading officials of the Party Central Committee, senior officials of the Party committees of the Cabinet, commissions and ministries, scientists, technicians and meritorious persons in the field of the munitions industry, commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and services and corps of the Korean People's Army, division and brigade commanders of the entire army, and teachers and researchers of military educational and scientific research institutes at all levels and major universities.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played solemnly.

Jo Chun Ryong, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, made a speech at the commemorative event.

The current exhibition is an aggregate of the achievements recently made in the course of carrying out the Party Central Committee's policy on developing the unmanned and intelligent combat systems of our own style, he said, introducing various kinds of drones newly developed in the field of the unmanned aeronautical industry.