Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- 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 September 6 inspected O Jin U Artillery Academy, a pedigree establishment for training the backbone of the artillery force in the country.

The academy is famous as it has trained commanding officers of the first arm of the heroic Korean People's Army which is reliably defending the country and the people and justice and peace while displaying its invincible might and courage. Its campus was filled with the great emotion and joy of all the teaching staff and cadets who would have the highest honor and privilege of meeting the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un .

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the academy, they raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" as the highest respects of the artillerymen to the iron-willed brilliant commander, the symbol of the absolute might of the DPRK and the banner of all victories and glory.

He was greeted by Army Senior Colonel Yu Chang Son, headmaster of the academy, and Army Senior Colonel Choe Hun, director of its Political Department.

After receiving a salute from the headmaster, Kim Jong Un paid homage to the colors.

An educator and a cadet of the academy presented bouquets of fragrant flowers to him, reflecting the boundless reverence of all the artillery officers and men.

Responding to the enthusiastic cheers, Kim Jong Un sent militant encouragement to all the teaching staff of the prestigious academy, which has creditably discharged its sacred mission as the basic cornerstone and driving force for bolstering up the artillery force reliably guaranteeing the continued war-victory history and the strongest military and technical edge of our revolutionary armed forces, and its cadets growing up to be commanding officers of the core arm.

He was accompanied by Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and secretary of the C.C., WPK, Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, Jong Kyong Thaek, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Kim Myong Sik, commander of the Navy, Ri Chang Ho, director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau, and leading officials in the military education field of the DPRK Ministry of National Defence.

Accompanying him were also Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan and Kim Jae Ryong, secretaries of the C.C., WPK.

Kim Jong Un reviewed a march-past of the academy cadets.

He looked round the room for education in the revolutionary history.

He stressed that the academy, which has developed into a major center for training artillery commanding officers of the KPA under the great care of the peerlessly great men, recording immortal military feats in its history, should thoroughly implement the Party's idea of prioritizing the artillery and its policy on military education in the future, too, in order to train the competent military personnel strong in idea and faith with the absolute loyalty to the Party and the revolution and the spirit of devotedly serving the country and the people and with high military qualifications.

Guided by leading officials, he went round the arms study room and watched drill lectures given at the ground-based artillery firing research room and the artillery tactical research room. Then he learned in detail about the updating of education at the combined information control room for education.

It is our Party's philosophy of artillery and the core of its idea of attaching importance to artillery to open the road of advance with artillery and defeat overwhelmingly the enemy with artillery and display fireworks for celebrating the war victory and thus the most important aspect in the front of military education, a fortress and the forefront for implementing the line of building a powerful army of our Party, is the education field specializing in artillery, he said.

Noting that no matter how difficult the subjective and objective situation may be, the revolution in training for the thorough combat posture of the entire army and the revolution in military education for making the entire army a cadre army and modernizing the entire army are the two fronts for building a powerful army that should be pushed forward simultaneously and vigorously without missing any one, he said that the academy should duly stand in the vanguard of a new revolution in military education for guaranteeing the eternal development of the armed forces of the DPRK.

Noting that our Party has put the military technical strength on an absolutely high level by directing the main efforts to bolstering up the artillery force of specially great strategic and tactical significance among all arms of service in the army with a keen insight into the trend of the development of modern military capabilities, he stressed that whether or not the very powerful ultra-modern military hardware can fully display their performance for actual war entirely depends on the level and role of the artillery commanders.

He appreciated that the academy has intensified lectures for judging the combat situation of a commanding officer and giving a decision on his ability to command at a simulated war through a group discussion, and called for steadily accelerating the work to modernize educational means and put education on an IT and scientific basis.

He called on all the teachers and researchers of the academy to turn out as one in the work for bringing a revolution in the artillery tactics and the military theory of artillery pieces, with a noble sense of duty that they are responsible for the future of the Juche-based artillery force, and thus improve the quality of education and thoroughly establish a revolutionary habit of studying and military discipline in the campus so that cadets can acquire deeper and richer military knowledge during their school days.

He stressed the need to improve and adjust the academic system and educational system of the academy in a practical and efficient way in conformity with the trend of the development of modern military education so that the cadets can learn the practical tactics to be applied to actual warfare without fail.

He said that all the artillery commanding officers from this academy should be a-match-for-a-hundred all-powerful artillerymen and artillery talents well versed in the Juche-based artillery tactics and ultra-modern military hardware with different striking capabilities and possessed of full combat command capability capable of rapidly, fully and overwhelmingly containing and wiping out the enemy in any situation of modern warfare.

Saying that to improve the educational conditions and environment in conformity with the academy's important duty and position in bolstering up the armed forces of the DPRK is very essential for considerably raising the quality of military education, he expressed the will to wonderfully turn the academy into a model of the military educational institutions of the entire army and a world-class military school, and took an important measure for doing so.

He indicated the ways for further strengthening the military education institutions at all levels of the KPA in line with the developing trend of modern education and for improving the educational environment.

That day Kim Jong Un had a significant photo session with the teaching staff and cadets of the academy.

All the teaching staff and cadets expressed boundless thanks to the iron-willed brilliant commander who, with his outstanding idea of building the revolutionary armed forces and far-sighted wisdom, indicated the bright path to be followed by the academy for bolstering up the artillery force and repeatedly showed deep loving care and trust for them.

Kim Jong Un expressed belief that the prestigious artillery academy would as ever live up to the great expectations of the Party, revolution, country and people with the proud military educational successes in training the core backbones of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK most wonderfully and perfectly.

Thunderous shouts of " Kim Jong Un " and "Death-defying Defence", raised at the campus sending off Kim Jong Un , shook the sky and land.

The inspection of the artillery academy by Kim Jong Un with the steadfast will for building a powerful army to firmly consolidate the tremendous military muscle and thus reliably defend the sovereignty and interests of the DPRK, an independent power, and the security and well-being of its people for all ages, will remain long in the history of the country as a special occasion in ushering in a new heyday of strengthening the Juche-based artillery force and developing the military education. -0-

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