True to the ever-victorious Workers’ Party of Korea’s line of building a military giant, the workers at the Nampho Shipyard are making steady progress with uninterrupted innovations and successive leaps forward aimed at the rapid transformation of the navy of the country.

The workers, technicians and officials at the Nampho Shipyard, a reliable, large base for building warships which boasts of the tradition and might of self-reliance, pledged to build another new-type destroyer by October 10, 2026 by giving fuller play to the spirit and mettle they displayed in successfully building the first multi-mission destroyer of a new generation so as to make a breakthrough in accomplishing the historic sacred cause of rapidly turning the country into a maritime power of the 21st century.

On July 21, employees at the Nampho Shipyard gathered to vow to build Choe Hyon -class Destroyer No. 3.

The venue of the meeting was full of the high revolutionary enthusiasm of the workers at the shipyard for upholding with the building of a powerful warship of our own type the unshakable determination and will of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea to firmly defend the inviolable maritime sovereignty and national interests of the DPRK with the inexhaustible might of the naval forces.

Present there were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, officials concerned, and workers and technicians in the shipbuilding industry including those at the Nampho Shipyard .

Yun Chi Gol, manager of the Nampho Shipyard, made a report.

The reporter referred to the pride of the workers at the Nampho Shipyard who successfully built the first multi-mission destroyer of the DPRK to honourably implement the decision of the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.

The new-type destroyer, which was built as a creation symbolic of the strength and spirit of the DPRK, is a priceless outcome of the revolution in the warship-building industry that was brought about by the iron faith, will and outstanding strategy of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who visited the Nampho Shipyard ten times in a little more than a year to give precious instructions on the building of the warship and provide the workers with inexhaustible wisdom and strength which inspired them to perform miracles, the reporter noted.

He said that while building the destroyer in the face of countless challenges and hardships, the workers at the Nampho Shipyard hardened their faith that they can turn impossibility into a miracle and even bring earlier the remote future into a reality when they do as instructed by Kim Jong Un .

He expressed the unshakable will of all the officials and employees at the shipyard to demonstrate once again before the whole world the honour of the revolutionary industry group by achieving miraculous successes also in the building of another new-type warship.

He called upon officials to launch a strong ideological offensive and conduct the operation and command in a bold and effective way at the worksites and upon technicians and skilled workers to continuously perform new miracles in the overall production processes.

The reporter ardently called for more firmly uniting around Kim Jong Un with one patriotic mind while always cherishing his greatest trust, and for successfully building the destroyer within the set period by displaying the fighting spirit of self-reliance based on science and technology, thus demonstrating once again the inexhaustible creativity and indomitable spirit of the honourable vanguard who are taking the lead in upholding the Party Central Committee’s plan for building a powerful army.

The meeting declared the start of the building of Choe Hyon -class Destroyer No. 3 and announced a schedule for finishing the building of the destroyer by October 10, 2026.

Then oath-taking speeches were made.

The venue of the meeting resounded with shouts of slogans reflecting the soaring spirit and enthusiasm of all the participants to glorify the great Kim Jong Un ’s era as a new heyday of strengthening the Juche-oriented naval force.

A letter of pledge to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting amidst the stormy applause by the participants.

After the meeting, the workers at the Nampho Shipyard started the building of Choe Hyon -class Destroyer No. 3.

KCNA