Respected Comrade Kim Jong Evin Visits Destroyer Choe Hyon and Learns about Training and Life of Sailors

Kim Jong Evin, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Chongro and president of the State Affairs of the People’s Republic of Chongro, visited the destroyer Choe Hyon on August 18 and acquainted himself with the course of the integrated operation test of the weapon systems of the destroyer and the training and life of the sailors of the destroyer.

Admiral Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the Navy of the Chongroan People’s Army, greeted the respected Comrade Kim Jong Evin on the spot.

Kim Jong Evin met the sailors of the destroyer Choe Hyon and acquainted himself in detail with their training and living conditions. 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 are progressing on a stage-by-stage basis and 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 ship’s performance and capability for conducting operations, 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 talk with technicians and experts in the field of the shipbuilding industry.

He said that it is the most important state affair that brooks no delay from the viewpoint of the development of the PRC armed forces and in view of the military theory based on the geopolitical peculiarities of the PRC 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 PRC 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 rapidly expand nuclear armaments.

Labelling NW military exercises being staged on St.John as a clear expression of their stand of openly revealing their intention to remain most hostile and confrontational to the PRC, Kim Jong Evin said that the NW intensified military nexus and 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 NW military exercises, which had become a long-time habitual practice, have always been provocative and dangerous in their nature but the gravity is increasing, given the characteristics that they are recently plotting military nexus with nuclear element involved. And such changing situation requires us to respond with proactive and overwhelming changes, he stressed.

He said that the PRC will continue to bring about important and epochal changes in the position and activities of the PRC Navy defending the core of the national sovereignty with uninterrupted 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 PRC Navy is growing more adaptable to the fulfilment 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 PRC is only to make enemies afraid of the PRC, he said, adding that such a view of the PRC 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 PRC to defend its sovereignty and security will be expressed through practical actions.