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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Major Defence Industrial Enterprises

Date: 13/05/2024 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), gave field guidance to major defence industrial enterprises under the Second Economic Commission on May 11 and 12 to learn about the implementation of the Party's policy on munitions industry.

He was accompanied by Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and secretary of the C.C., WPK, Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the C.C., WPK, Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences of the DPRK, Hong Yong Chil and Kim Yo Jong, vice department directors of the C.C., WPK.

Kim Jong Un inspected a complex producing ultramodern precision munitions to learn about modernization of its production processes.

Noting that it is a prerequisite and important guarantee for developing the self-reliant defence industry onto a more radical development stage that the modernization of production processes of the defence industrial enterprises playing a key role in bolstering up combat capability of the army has been put on a higher level and they are possessing world-level high technical capabilities, he added that the recent remarkable development made in the national defence industry on a world level is a brilliant fruition of the validity and vitality of the Party's strategy for national defence economic development and its policy for carrying it out.

He highly appreciated the fact that the automation and streamlining have been successfully realized at many enterprises, and expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the ideas and efforts have been positively made to ensure the practical and effective arrangement of ultra-modern equipment and devices with high accuracy and reliability in operation throughout the whole process ranging from workpiece production to assembly and test and to carry out the production in a scientific way.

He stressed the need for major defence industrial enterprises to effectively organize the economic work for serial production of major munitions whose quality is thoroughly guaranteed, saying that it is important to build up the technical forces in keeping with their production processes being modernized on a high level, establish strict quality control regulations and order, and carry on the supply of materials and products under contract in a planned way.

He said that the core defence industrial enterprises under special care of the Party should play a vanguard role and fully guarantee the preparations of the Korean People's Army (KPA) for war materially and technically, calling for conducting the ideological education of all officials and employees in a more offensive way as required by the prevailing revolutionary situation and giving full play to their mental power so that they can turn out as one in the munitions production.

He urged all the defence industrial enterprises under the Second Economic Commission to wage on a more developed basis the struggle for establishing a cultured way of production and life and continue creating and improving the new-century culture of the munitions industrial workers as a model.

He visited a complex producing major small arms to learn about the performance of various small arms newly developed in Korean style including a sniper rifle.

Showing his deep care for a newly-developed sniper rifle, he said with high appreciation that our scientists and technicians have produced a sniper rifle with world-level performance and might.

Referring to the WPK's plan and intention to bring about a revolution in the production of more advanced small arms, he indicated the long-term development orientation for major small arms production enterprises and the issues of principle to be maintained in the work for organizing the national defence economy for its realization as well as important tasks and ways.

He learned about the production of updated 240mm multiple rockets launchers to be equipped by KPA artillery units newly formed this year.

Going round the produced launchers, he acquainted himself with the production plan for this year and the production results to date. And he mounted a launcher to learn about its combat performance while personally undergoing a trial operation.

He noted with appreciation that the automation system of launchers has been put on a high level and they have been made qualitatively on the principle of ensuring the maximum combat effectiveness of the 240mm multiple rocket launcher system, stressing the need to further expand the production results by increasing the scientific and technological capabilities and making sustained innovations and thus accelerate the bolstering of the artillery capabilities of the army.

In order to mass-produce multiple rocket launchers of our style with high efficiency and reliability in bulk, it is important to steadily improve the modernization level of production processes, he said, calling for continuously updating the goal for modernization of production processes with the main emphasis put on steadily improving the performance of launchers.

He expressed expectation and belief that the major defence industrial enterprises would not only carry out the munitions production plan, set forth by the Party, in a qualitative way without fail but also make fresher innovations and leap forward with the peculiar spirit for development and manner of creation while always holding high the banner in the van of struggle for implementing the Party's national defence development strategy. -0-

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