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 trains 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. All its teaching staff and cadets were filled with the great emotion and joy as they were to meet the respected Comrade 

Kim Jong Un in their campus.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the academy, they raised stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” as a reflection of the highest respect of the artillerymen for the iron-willed brilliant commander, symbolic of the absolute might of the DPRK and banner of all victories and glory.

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

After receiving a salute from the rector, he paid homage to the colours of the academy.

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

Responding to the enthusiastic cheers, Kim Jong Un sent militant encouragement to all the teaching staff of the prestigious military academy, which has creditably discharged its sacred mission as the basic cornerstone and driving force for bolstering up the artillery force that reliably guarantees the uninterrupted history of victory in war and the strongest military and technical edge of our revolutionary armed forces, and to its cadets, who are 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 Central Committee of the 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 field of military education of the DPRK Ministry of National Defence.

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

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

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

He stressed that the academy, which has developed into a major base 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, in the future, too, thoroughly implement the Party’s idea of prioritizing the artillery and its policy on military education so as to train competent military personnel, who are strong in idea and faith with absolute loyalty to the Party and the revolution and the spirit of death-defyingly serving the country and the people and possessed of high military qualifications.

Guided by senior 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 at the combined pedagogical information control room he learned in detail about the updating of education.

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

Noting that no matter how difficult the subjective and objective situations 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 it are the two fronts for building a powerful army, which should be pushed forward simultaneously and vigorously without missing any one, he said that the academy should stand in the vanguard of a new revolution in military education for guaranteeing the eternal development of the Republic’s armed forces.

Observing that our Party has put the military technological 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 the arms of 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 the fact that the academy has intensified lectures for assessing the abilities of a commanding officer to judge the combat situation and command in a simulated war through a group discussion, and stressed that the work of modernizing educational means and putting education on an IT and scientific basis should be steadily accelerated.

He said that all the teachers and researchers of the academy should turn out as one in the work for bringing about a revolution in the artillery tactics and the military theory of the artillery 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. He also instructed them to thoroughly establish a revolutionary habit of studying and the military discipline in the campus so that the cadets can acquire deeper and richer military knowledge during their school days.

He stressed the need to improve and adjust the academic system and courses of the academy in a practical and efficient way in conformity with the trend of developing modern military education to help the cadets learn the practical tactics to be applied surely to actual warfare.

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

Saying that improving the educational conditions and environment of the academy in conformity with its important duty and position in strengthening the Republic’s armed forces is essential for remarkably raising the quality of military education, he expressed his will to wonderfully turn the academy into a model of the military educational institutions of the entire army and a world-class military academy, and took an important measure to this end.

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

He had a photo taken 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 an outstanding idea of building up 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 bestowed loving care and trust on them.

Kim Jong Un expressed his belief that the prestigious artillery academy would as ever live up to the great expectations of the Party, revolution, country and people with proud military educational successes in training the core backbone of our revolutionary armed forces 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 a steadfast will to build a powerful army by firmly consolidating the tremendous military strength and thus reliably defend the sovereignty and interests of the country, 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 military education.