Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Destroyer Choe Hyon and Learns about Training and Life of Sailors
Date: 19/08/2025 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source
Pyongyang, August 19 (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, visited the destroyer Choe Hyon on August 18 and acquainted himself with the course of the integrated operation test of the weapon system of the destroyer and the training and life of the sailors of the destroyer.
Senior Vice Admiral Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, greeted the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on the spot.
Kim Jong Un met the sailors of the destroyer Choe Hyon and acquainted himself in detail with the training and living conditions of them. And he set the goal of military and technical qualifications to be attained by the sailors for the operation of the new-type destroyer and expressed his view on the training mode for its realization.
After receiving a report on the course of the sectional tests of the various weapon systems of the warship and the composition of the integrated operation system, he expressed satisfaction over the fact that the major tasks for making the navy high-tech and nuclear-armed is progressing on a stage-by-stage basis as planned.
He underlined the need to complete the tasks slated for August and September and move on to the next stage, the process of assessing the performance and capability for conducting operations of the ship, in October as planned.
That day, he received a report on the third Choe Hyon-class new-type multi-mission destroyer being built at the Nampho Shipyard and its long-term plan. And he had an important conversation with technicians and experts in the field of the shipbuilding industry.
He said that it is the most important state affairs from the viewpoint of the development of the DPRK armed forces and in view of the military theory based on the geopolitical peculiarities of the DPRK to extremely rapidly develop the capability for operations of our Navy which is performing its duty in the major space of national defence.
He said that, as he had stressed before, the security environment around the DPRK is getting more serious day by day and the prevailing situation requires us to make a radical and swift change in the existing military theory and practice and rapid expansion of nuclearization.
Labeling the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises being staged again from now as a clear expression of stand of openly revealing their intention to remain most hostile and confrontational to the DPRK, Kim Jong Un said that the U.S.-ROK intensified military nexus and the muscle-flexing are the most obvious manifestation of their will to ignite a war and the source of destroying the peace and security environment in the region.
He said that the U.S.-ROK military exercises which had become habitual practice from long ago have always been provocative and dangerous in their nature but the gravity is increasing from the characteristics that they are recently plotting military nexus with the nuclear element involved. And such changing situation requires us to take counteraction with proactive and overwhelming changes, he stressed.
He said that the DPRK will continue to bring about important and eventful changes in the position and activities of the DPRK Navy defending the core of the national sovereignty with unstoppable struggle and strenuous efforts and that the Navy will become a reliable force firmly performing a part in the composition of the state nuclear forces and the realm of nuclear use in the near future. It means that the combat strength of the DPRK Navy is growing more adaptable to the fulfillment of the national defence strategy and the use of war deterrent, he added.
The most reliable and steadfast way and guarantee for controlling and keeping the security environment of the region and firmly defending the sovereignty and security of the DPRK is only to make enemies afraid of the DPRK, he said, adding that such view of the DPRK on controlling the situation and the national defence strategy will remain unchanged.
He affirmed that important measures for the accelerated growth of the national defence capabilities will surely be taken continuously and the firm will and capabilities of the DPRK to defend the sovereignty and security of the country will be expressed through practical actions. -0-
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