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 6 visited a major munitions industry enterprise and acquainted himself with the production of major weapons and combat equipment in the first half of the year.

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 Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and director of the General Armaments Bureau, 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 Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences.

Comrade Kim Jong Un learned about the production of new-type self-propelled gun-howitzers for three battalions to be deployed at the long-range artillery unit in the southern borderline within this year according to the decision of the First Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK.

He heard in detail the opinions of experts on the results of various travelling, terrain negotiation and submerged river-crossing tests of the new-type self-propelled 155 mm gun-howitzer carriage and the test-fire of improved shell, which were conducted according to a test plan.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the research group and workers in the field of defence sciences have achieved the signal success of manufacturing an excellent new-generation artillery weapon with very high mobility and firepower strike ability.

He extended militant encouragement to the workers at the enterprise who are waging a dynamic labour struggle to attain the set artillery weapon production goal, while registering good results every day with the bold pattern of creation and revolutionary spirit, true to the idea and decision of the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.

Appreciating the advantage of the new-type self-propelled 155 mm gun-howitzer system being newly produced at the enterprise, he mentioned its military strategic value.

He said that this large-calibre rifled gun to be deployed in the frontline units as replacement, along with various operational and tactical missile systems and powerful multiple rocket launcher systems, will now have a striking range of over 60 kilometres and the rapid extension of such striking range and remarkable improvement of target-destroying capability will bring a great change and advantage to the land operations of our army. And he referred to the need to redefine the operational concept of the use of forces and equipment on the basis of the actual conditions under which new weapons and equipment are being introduced.

He said that the new-type artillery weapon system with superior mobility, enhanced combat environment information processing capability and automatic firing system will bring about a radical improvement in the composition of our artillery force and is of important significance in implementing the Party's military strategic policy on bolstering up the long-range artillery force.

Referring to a series of defects latent in the composition of the production system, processing section and arrangement of equipment at the enterprise, he gave an instruction on working out a plan for introducing an automatic production line system supported by a more efficient and innovative idea.

He stressed the need to always pay close attention to constantly improving the production conditions and environment.

That day, he inspected a new-type main battle tank and various launchers which are being produced by the Armoured Weapons Institute and several munitions industry enterprises.

It is a matter of urgency to technically remodel the major munitions industry enterprises, which hold a key position in the work to improve the modernity of our armed forces, at an ultra-modern level and at the earliest possible period and to set up a modern production and management system, he said, adding that the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK will examine and approve the plans for technical renovation of the relevant munitions industry enterprises and the relevant budget.

He affirmed that the year 2026 will also record an unprecedented upgrade in the course of the struggle for bolstering up the national defence capability of the country, and called for achieving signal successes day after day by making strenuous efforts for the strengthening of the national defence capability, the highest expression of patriotism.

Comrade Kim Jong Un's on-site guidance over the defence field on the day is an important occasion in increasing the country's defence capability in a practical way.