Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Special Operation Training Base under General Staff of KPA and Learns about Training of Soldiers

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 special operation training base directly under the authority of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army and learned about the training of the sniper sub-unit and special operation sub-unit on August 27.

The respected Comrade was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first deputy department director of the WPK Central Committee, and other leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.

He was greeted on the spot by No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, and Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army.

Kim met snipers and soldiers of the special operations unit organized for carrying out special duties at the training base and learned about the military equipment of the sub-units and their training.

He acquainted himself with the new-type sniper rifle being produced and supplied to the units.

The North Korean leader appreciated the high-precision long-range sniping character and superiority of the new-type sniper rifle designed and developed by the DPRK Academy of Defence Science. "This year in our own way to improve the ergonomic efficiency of the weapon and the tactical performance of snipers, and expressed satisfaction over the fact that the units were armed with the sniping weapon of a new generation," he said.

Noting that the sniper forces have a very important duty in the combat ability composition of the units, he pointed out that the sniper is a specially selected soldier ready to conduct independent and proactive military actions, and like a hunter killing enemy soldiers with the marksmanship worthy of a crack shot on the battlefield. Kim added that it is an important task for building up our armed forces to drastically strengthen the special operations forces and specialized sniper forces in the future.

He said that the Central Military Commission of the WPK would examine the issue of organizing the Central Sniper Training Center under the General Staff in the future.

Saying that concentration and high observation are essential qualities for snipers, Kim mentioned that they should be trained for discerning different surroundings and getting used to the environment to improve their concentration, endurance and observation, and that they should establish a correct training methodology for selecting sniping object, concealing and moving, selecting and building shooting platform, acquiring the method of observation with various equipment and precision long-range shooting method and learning the secret of adjusted fire in attack and defence between the teams of snipers and between sub-units, and intensify scientific specialized training to raise the capability for an actual war.