金正恩総書記、国防科学研究機関が実施した主要兵器試験を指導

Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) — 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 June 25 supervised tests of major weapons organized by defence scientific research institutes under the plan for modernizing artillery and missile forces to attain the five-year goal for national defence development. Among the spectators were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and general director of the General Armaments Bureau, Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, Yu Chang Son, director of the Artillery Bureau of the General Staff, and the commanders of large combined units of the Korean People’s Army. The tests analyzed and evaluated the combat characteristics of the upgraded 240mm-caliber 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system, the power of special mission warhead of tactical ballistic missile, and the hit accuracy of shells with an extended firing range of the 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer. The upgraded 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system is an improved type corps-level firepower system and its firing range has increased to 90 km. All elements of its firepower system were automated and a self-steered precise guidance system was introduced. And the special mission warhead of the tactical ballistic missile is aimed at inflicting fatal damage on major targets including airfields, ports and power facilities of the enemy. The test of shells with extended firing range of 65 km of the 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer, too, is of great military significance. Expressing great satisfaction over the results of the tests, Comrade Kim Jong Un told the leading cadres accompanying him that he was pleased to show a new state of the development of the national defence introduced at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK. Comrade Kim Jong Un said that today’s tests of division-level and corps-level firepower systems serve as an occasion of proving and giving confidence in the great technological progress made in implementing our Party’s policy on building the armed forces for bringing about a change in the fire posture on the southern border and adhering to the three principles of putting weapons on an automatic, long-range and ultra-precision basis. He said that the WPK’s line on self-reliant defence is being thoroughly guaranteed by our distinguished defence science talents and defence sci-tech capability that pioneer the unique course of development nonstop without hesitation by relying on the highly ingenious development mode. Saying that the present international situation, in which sovereignty can be defended and existence guaranteed only by complete upper-hand in strength, makes it unnecessary to add any rhetoric to explaining why the bolstering up of the defence capabilities is the indispensable first national strategic work, he added that it eloquently shows the validity of our Party’s line of self-defence and the irreversibility of radical development of our armed forces. Referring to the need to prioritize the development of artillery and missile forces of the Army, he stressed the immediate task for developing the national defence to be carried out during the Five-Year Plan. As he has recently emphasized so often, our Party’s policy on self-defence is not merely for the enhancement of the defensive function relying on defensive means but for further strengthening the deadly and destructive offensive posture to make no enemy dare to confront, and this is a defensive concept in the army-building and military actio