The Workers’ Party of Korea, which set forth the grand national defence development strategy for accomplishing the cause of building a rich country with a strong army at its historic Eighth Congress, has dynamically guided its implementation, thus firmly defending and vigorously leading the grand all-people advance toward comprehensive national prosperity by dint of rapid modernization and super-strength of the armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Thanks to the heroic struggle of the munitions industry workers, who have performed miracles unconditionally in hearty response to the calls of the Party and the revolution, the ultra-modern military hardware that provided the Korean People’s Army with invincible might in recent years make the Korean people more strongly feel the pride of living in a powerful country, self-reliant in national defence, and the dignity of the strong and dramatically boost their courage and confidence in the rosy future of their country guaranteed by tremendous military strength.

Demonstrating the infinite development of the national defence capability and the great leaps forward in modernizing the powerful army, which serve as a powerful pillar and driving force for achieving signal victories eternally in the revolution, a ceremony for transferring 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, produced at major munitions enterprises, to the first-line units on the border of the DPRK took place in the capital city of Pyongyang with splendour.

The workers of major munitions enterprises, mindful of their important mission that the increased production of military hardware precisely means the safeguarding of the national dignity and sovereignty, waged an intensive struggle to successfully attain the important munitions production goals set forth at the Eighth Party Congress and the enlarged meetings of the Central Military Commission of the Party. Thus, they performed the proud feats of serially producing in a short span of time the main strike military hardware indispensable for implementing the Party’s military strategic ideas.

A ceremony for celebrating the transfer and receiving of new-type tactical ballistic missile system took place on August 4.

The venue of the ceremony, where another defence asset of great military strategic value that will serve as the pivotal military hardware of the DPRK armed forces, lined up demonstrating the appearance peculiar to them, was filled with great pride in the enormous dignity of the sacred country, which will be further strengthened along with the entities of the successful second-stage revolution in the defence industry being confidently led by the great Party Central Committee.

When 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, appeared at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers.

All the participants extended the highest glory and respect to the peerless patriot and great brilliant commander, who is leading the cause of a patriotic struggle for the eternal prosperity of the country in the vanguard and ushering in a new era of a Juche-oriented powerful nation where long-cherished desires in the 5 000-year history of the nation are being fulfilled satisfactorily.

Prior to the ceremony, Kim Jong Un looked round new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers to be commissioned as a new core striking weapon of the DPRK armed forces.

For a country, economic construction, defence buildup, improvement of the people’s living standards, natural disaster relief, etc. are all its crucial affairs and main functions that can never be neglected, Kim Jong Un said, adding that holding a ceremony for celebrating the transfer and receiving of the new-type weapon system, even at a time when the whole country is out in a campaign for rehabilitating flood damage, is a manifestation of the firm will of the Party to push ahead with the bolstering of defence capability, the fundamental guarantee for safeguarding the people and national sovereignty, without letup in any circumstances, and the invariable principled stand maintained by us in state building.

He paid tribute to the ultra-modern military hardware encapsulating the pure conscience and noble outlook on life of the munitions industry workers, who accepted as the demand of the revolution and their inherent duty in life the determination and plan of the Party Central Committee for strengthening the supremacy of our armed forces to the maximum without a moment of hesitation and letup, and upheld them with boundless revolutionary enthusiasm, fighting will and thoroughgoing and perfect creative spirit and mettle.

The ceremony was attended by leading officials of the Party, the government and the military, officials of the Party Central Committee, defence scientists, officials, technicians and workers in the munitions industry, and meritorious persons in Pyongyang Municipality.

Also present there were commanders of services, commanders of large combined units and other service personnel of the KPA.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, reported to Kim Jong Un that his special order on munitions production was successfully implemented.

The secretary mentioned that officials and workers in the munitions industry sector finished the production of 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, true to the strategic plan of the Party Central Committee, and were ready to transfer them to KPA units.

He said that the tactical ballistic missile system newly developed and produced by munitions industry workers are a powerful up-to-date tactical strike weapon of our style, whose production Kim Jong Un personally initiated and energetically led to perfection.

During the days of their death-defying struggle to live up to the great trust bestowed on them by Kim Jong Un, the fighters in the munitions industry learned the iron truth that there is nothing impossible for them to do in the world and they can ceaselessly achieve world-startling miraculous successes if they conduct scientific operations and engage in absolute practice with their hearts pulsating with his extraordinary revolutionary enthusiasm and far-reaching plan, the secretary stressed.

Making a firm pledge, in reflection of the unanimous feelings of all the fighters in the munitions industry, to remain invariably loyal to their honourable duty as fighters in the WPK’s revolutionary industry shouldering the cause of building a powerful army in the great era of Kim Jong Un, he courteously reported to Kim Jong Un that they thoroughly implemented his order.

Kim Jong Un made a historic speech.

After declaring with pride that an important item in the practical guidelines for building up the military capability, which was decided at the Eighth Congress of our Party and the enlarged meetings of the Central Military Commission of the Party held during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, has been brought into fruition, he, in the name of the Party and government, extended warm thanks to the workers, scientists and officials in the munitions industry, who have proudly carried out their revolutionary tasks of great strategic significance in steadily developing the self-reliant national defence capability of the state.

On the basis of a serious analysis of the important political and military significance highlighted by the magnificent demonstration, the first of its kind ever since the founding of our country and army, the crucial changes in the military security environment facing our country and the US and its followers’ ever-escalating military confrontation moves, Kim Jong Un clarified the tasks to be fulfilled in ensuring the steady development of the tremendous strength of our Republic’s armed forces and the self-reliant defence industry that firmly supports it.

Noting that independence, justice and peace are firmly guaranteed only by the absolute and matchless self-defence capability, and our eternal victory, genuine peace, happiness and wellbeing are ensured by the ever-developing powerful and limitless strength, he fervently called for waging an undaunted struggle and making uninterrupted changes and progressive successes for the independent development of the country and peaceful and prosperous new life of its people.

The participants were greatly excited by his speech as it clarified a clear-cut policy and fighting guidelines for infinitely developing the military capability for self-defence for most righteously and creditably defending the present and future of the country and its people in today’s tough world where the confrontation of strength decides life and death.

They raised loud cheers of “Hurrah!” as a reflection of their firm resolve to bolster up the war deterrent and the capability for fighting a war to be so overwhelming that the hostile forces dare not use their military muscle against their country by equipping themselves fully with the steel-strong faith and revolutionary will of the great WPK and cementing the super-strength in the country’s possession to be more absolute and irreversible.

Kim Jong Un gave written orders in the name of the chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK on equipping the first-line units of the KPA on the frontier with the new-type tactical ballistic missiles to the chief of the KPA General Staff and commanders of the large combined frontline units.

He personally awarded the colours and certificates of the colours of the new missile units to the commanders, political commissars and chiefs of staff of relevant units.

Stormy cheers rocked the venue of the ceremony, where a great event to be specially recorded in the history of building a powerful and modern Juche-oriented army was witnessed.

There was a ceremony of the combined military band.

Members of the band and the guard of honour added joy and militant enthusiasm to the great auspicious event by making various formation changes and showing smart rifle-handling skills to the dynamic tune of revolutionary military music.

There took place a demonstration march of the frontline missile artillerymen’s units that received new weapons.

The tactical ballistic missile launchers preceded by the glorious colours moved forward, being reviewed by Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un gave a militant salute to the ultimate weapons that vividly reflect the patriotic souls of the red workers of the munitions industry, dedicated to the sacred cause of historic significance of the nation to firmly bolster up the world’s greatest self-defensive military capability, and symbolize an epoch-making improvement of the military supremacy of the armed forces of the DPRK.

At the end of the ceremony, cheers of “Hurrah!” filled with loyalty and patriotic zeal of the participants, resounded far and wide through the nocturnal sky.

Looking round the new-type weapons again together with leading officials of the Party, the government and the military, and commanding officers of the large combined units, Kim Jong Un expressed belief that the latest, elite weapons, another firm stepping stone for injecting tremendous vitality into the name and flag of the DPRK and remarkably enhancing its prestige, would demonstrate their might as a powerful treasured sword in defending the sovereignty of the country and peace.

The commissioning ceremony of new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, held in the presence of Kim Jong Un, will be recorded in history as a historic event which further strengthened the iron faith of the army and people, advancing under the ever-victorious leadership of the great Party Central Committee, in the validity and invincibility of their cause and their conviction in the future of the country that will endlessly become powerful and prosperous.