General Secretary Kim Jong Un’s Revolutionary Activities

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, on May 7 visited the destroyer Choe Hyon and observed a test for generally assessing its manoeuvrability conducted in the run-up to its commissioning.

He was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Sik, first deputy department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, 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, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Yu Chang Son, director of the Artillery Bureau of the General Staff, Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, and other leading officials in the national defence and warship-building sectors.

Comrade Kim Jong Un boarded the destroyer Choe Hyon to learn about a navigation plan for the test for generally assessing its manoeuvrability.

He highly appreciated the successes made by the crew members of the destroyer in their training for fully acquiring the professional qualifications for skilfully operating the new-type destroyer, a combination of modern military and technical capabilities.

He went round the combined control centre, weapon system control room and other combat duty spaces and elements of the destroyer to learn about its operational preparations.

A navigation test to assess various manoeuvring elements of the warship was conducted in his presence in the section of 120n•mile of the West Sea of Korea.

The crew members of the destroyer were in full excitement and high spirits as they had the honour of making a voyage in the presence of Comrade Kim Jong Un again.

He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the combat manoeuvrability of the warship complied with the operational requirements and the advantages of the Korean-style warship control system were proved.

Appreciating that all the tests for the operational commissioning of the destroyer were progressing smoothly, he issued an order to hand it over to the Navy in oncoming mid-June as planned.

He laid down the position, disposition and operational duties of new-type destroyers to be built and clarified a series of tasks to be carried out by the Navy for them.

He specially emphasized the important tasks related to the establishment of a new naval base.

At a consultative meeting with officials in the warship-building sector on the day, Comrade Kim Jong Un received a report on the results of examination over the design changes and the newly-planned weapon system on warships Nos. 3 and 4 to be built and made an important conclusion. Saying that the new decision on the revised and changed warship building plan is of crucial strategic nature, he particularly stressed the meaning of the decision which will fundamentally update the readiness of the army's strategic action and bring about a great change in the building of the war deterrent.

We have our reliable and powerful defence research group and shipbuilding industry, he said, expressing his great expectations and belief that the tasks set according to the new decision will be carried out without fail thanks to their irresistible might of self-reliance.

Reaffirming the steadfast will of the WPK to build a powerful navy at any cost, he referred to the long-term plan for navy building and a series of projects.

That day, he sat together with all the seamen of the destroyer, encouraged them, who felt unusual pride and self-confidence in carrying on the honourable duty, and called on them to continuously put spurs to training with a keen sense of mission and responsibility in order to remarkably increase the combat capability.

He had a photo taken with the seamen of the destroyer on its foredeck.

The seamen, who were honoured to meet Comrade Kim Jong Un again and received great glory and trust from him, made a firm determination to reliably defend the country's maritime sovereignty and remain faithful to their original and sacred mission of taking charge of a part of war deterrence by actively conducting intense training to possess the great capability to fight an actual war as befitting the brave seamen of the Party.