The Missile Administration of the DPRK conducted a test‐fire on Jan. 27 to verify the effectiveness of a large‐caliber multiple rocket launcher system upgraded with new technology.
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, oversaw the test‐fire.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration of the DPRK.
Expressing satisfaction over the result of the test, he said:
"Today's test is of great significance in improving the effectiveness of our strategic deterrent.
That is because we have achieved technical upgrading of this weapon system to employ its most powerful characteristics in a most appropriate and effective way, and thus made it possible to apply it in specific attacks.
All the indexes of the weapon system have been improved to maximize its strike capability, and the mobility, intelligence and hitting accuracy of the rockets, in particular, have remarkably been upgraded.
The mobility of the newly‐modernized launcher vehicle is also perfect.
The self‐steered precisely guided flight system, which can neglect any outside intervention, is a major feature that demonstrates the superiority of this weapon system.
The course of achieving this success was not all plain sailing, but the task has wonderfully been carried out by our scientists and technicians.
I am sure that no other country would acquire such technology or possess such capability in a few years at least.
If they had seen this test, our enemies would obviously have recognized the modernity and development potential of our defence technology.
This is clear proof of the steady improvement and uninterrupted evolution of our defence technology.
As I have always emphasized, the relevant activities we conduct are clearly aimed at none other than further raising the level of our deterrent against a nuclear war.
Demonstrating such a will and capability itself is a responsible exercise of the deterrent.
This cannot but be indispensable for self‐defence today.
I extend thanks to the defence science research group that has made devoted and painstaking efforts to perfect this weapon system.
The result and significance of this test will be a source of excruciating mental agony and serious threat to the forces that attempt to provoke a military confrontation with us.
Our artillerymen, possessed of the most precise, destructive and massive strike capability, will perform the responsible mission of deterring war."
The fired four rockets hit a target in the waters 358.5 km away from the point of launch.
Kim Jong Un stressed that it is the invariable line of our Party's national defence policy to build up the most reliable offensive capability and enforce the deterrence strategy based on it. And he said that the Ninth Congress of
the WPK will clarify the next‐stage plans for further bolstering up the country's nuclear war deterrent.
Steady Progress in Defence Buildup
In 2025, too, the DPRK made steady efforts to ramp up its national defence capabilities and safeguard the security of the nation and people and the peaceful environment of socialist construction.
The Korean People’s Army conducted a series of drills such as the joint striking drill of long‐range artillery and missile systems of its sub‐units on the eastern front, the combined tactical drill of different arms under training course of the conference of training officers and the firing drill of the artillery sub‐units of the large combined units, thus consolidating its full‐scale war capabilities.
Successes have also been achieved in the defence industry sector.
The country launched destroyers of the KPA Navy with splendid ceremonies in April and June last year. The events evidently demonstrated
its steadfast resolve and will to firmly defend national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests by rapidly developing its Navy into a powerful service in charge of part of the state nuclear deterrent.
Another significant event was the military hardware exhibition Defence Development‐2025. The venue was full of latest defence assets, ensembles of the Juche‐oriented defence sci‐tech force, including ultra‐modern weapon systems that were developed as the pivotal military hardware of the armed forces of the country. The exhibition served as a significant occasion that heralded the changes of the armed forces of the DPRK which will grow stronger along with the eye‐opening advance and development of the revolution in the defence industry in the new era.
Thanks to the guidance of the Workers’ Party of Korea which regards the policy of self‐reliant defence as the mainstay of defending and developing the revolution and ushers in a new era of bolstering up the national defence capability, the country’s defence capability is steadily being bolstered up along the upward track of its development.
February 8 is the founding day of Korean People’s Army.
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