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Commissioning Ceremony of Ultimate Weaponry Demonstrating Sure Victory of Cause of Building Powerful Army

The Workers' Party of Korea, which set forth the grand national defence development strategy for accomplishing the cause of building a rich country with a strong army at its historic Eighth Congress, has dynamically guided its implementation, thus firmly defending and vigorously leading the grand all-people advance toward comprehensive national prosperity by dint of rapid modernization and super-strength of the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Thanks to the heroic struggle of the munitions industry workers, who have performed miracles unconditionally in hearty response to the calls of the Party and the revolution, the ultra-modern military hardware that provided the Korean People's Army with invincible might in recent years make the Korean people more strongly feel the pride of living in a powerful country, self-reliant in national defence, and the dignity of the strong and dramatically boost their courage and confidence in the rosy future of their country guaranteed by tremendous military strength.

Demonstrating the infinite development of the national defence capability and the great leaps forward in modernizing the powerful army, which serve as a powerful pillar and driving force for achieving signal victories eternally in the revolution, a ceremony for transferring 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, produced at major munitions enterprises, to the first-line units on the border of the DPRK took place in the capital city of Pyongyang with splendour.

The workers of major munitions enterprises, mindful of their important mission that the increased production of military hardware precisely means the safeguarding of the national dignity and sovereignty, waged an intensive struggle to successfully attain the important munitions production goals set forth at the Eighth Party Congress and the enlarged meetings of the Central Military Commission of the Party. Thus, they performed the proud feats of serially producing in a short span of time the main strike military hardware indispensable for implementing the Party's military strategic ideas.

A ceremony for celebrating the transfer and receiving of new-type tactical ballistic missile system took place on August 4.

The venue of the ceremony, where another defence asset of great military strategic value that will serve as the pivotal military hardware of the DPRK armed forces, lined up demonstrating the appearance peculiar to them, was filled with great pride in the enormous dignity of the sacred country, which will be further strengthened along with the entities of the successful second-stage revolution in the defence industry being confidently led by the great Party Central Committee.

When 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, appeared at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers.

All the participants extended the highest glory and respect to the peerless patriot and great brilliant commander, who is leading the cause of a patriotic struggle for the eternal prosperity of the country in the vanguard and ushering in a new era of a Juche-oriented powerful nation where long-cherished desires in the 5 000-year history of the nation are being fulfilled satisfactorily.

Prior to the ceremony, Kim Jong Un looked round new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers to be commissioned as a new core striking weapon of the DPRK armed forces.

For a country, economic construction, defence buildup, improvement of the people's living standards, natural disaster relief, etc. are all its crucial affairs and main functions that can never be neglected, Kim Jong Un said, adding that holding a ceremony for celebrating the transfer and receiving of the new-type weapon system, even at a time when the whole country is out in a campaign for rehabilitating flood damage, is a manifestation of the firm will of the Party to push ahead with the bolstering of defence capability, the fundamental guarantee for safeguarding the people and national sovereignty, without letup in any circumstances, and the invariable principled stand maintained by us in state building.

He paid tribute to the ultra-modern military hardware encapsulating the pure conscience and noble outlook on life of the munitions industry workers, who accepted as the demand of the revolution and their inherent duty in life the determination and plan of the Party Central Committee for strengthening the supremacy of our armed forces to the maximum without a moment of hesitation and letup, and upheld them with boundless revolutionary enthusiasm, fighting will and thoroughgoing and perfect creative spirit and mettle.

The ceremony was attended by leading officials of the Party, the government and the military, officials of the Party Central Committee, defence scientists, officials, technicians and workers in the munitions industry, and meritorious persons in Pyongyang Municipality.

Also present there were commanders of services, commanders of large combined units and other service personnel of the KPA.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Jo Chun Ryong, Secretary of the WPK Central Committee, reported to Kim Jong Un that his special order on munitions production was successfully implemented.

The secretary mentioned that officials and workers in the munitions industry sector finished the production of 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, true to the strategic plan of the Party Central Committee, and were ready to transfer them to KPA units.

Comrade Jo Chun Ryong said that the tactical ballistic missile system newly developed and produced by munitions industry workers are a powerful up-to-date tactical strike weapon of our style, whose production Kim Jong Un personally initiated and energetically led to perfection.

During the days of their death-defying struggle to live up to the great trust bestowed on them by Kim Jong Un, the fighters in the munitions industry learned the iron truth that there is nothing impossible for them to do in the world and they can ceaselessly achieve world-startling miraculous successes if they conduct scientific operations and engage in absolute practice with their hearts pulsating with his extraordinary revolutionary enthusiasm and far-reaching plan, the secretary stressed.

Making a firm pledge, in reflection of the unanimous feelings of all the fighters in the munitions industry, to remain invariably loyal to their honourable duty as fighters in the WPK's revolutionary industry shouldering the cause of building a powerful army in the great era of Kim Jong Un, he courteously reported to Kim Jong Un that they thoroughly implemented his order.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made a historic speech.

After declaring with pride that an important item in the practical guidelines for building up the military capability, which was decided at the Eighth Congress of our Party and the enlarged meetings of the Central Military Commission of the Party held during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, has been brought into fruition, he, in the name of the Party and government, extended warm thanks to the workers, scientists and officials in the munitions industry, who have proudly carried out their revolutionary tasks of great strategic significance in steadily developing the self-reliant national defence capability of the state.

On the basis of a serious analysis of the important political and military significance highlighted by the magnificent demonstration, the first of its kind ever since the founding of our country and army, the crucial changes in the military security environment facing our country and the US and its followers' ever-escalating military confrontation moves, Kim Jong Un clarified the tasks to be fulfilled in ensuring the steady development of the tremendous strength of our Republic's armed forces and the self-reliant defence industry that firmly supports it.

Noting that independence, justice and peace are firmly guaranteed only by the absolute and matchless self-defence capability, and our eternal victory, genuine peace, happiness and wellbeing are ensured by the ever-developing powerful and limitless strength, he fervently called for waging an undaunted struggle and making uninterrupted changes and progressive successes for the independent development of the country and peaceful and prosperous new life of its people.

The participants were greatly excited by his speech as it clarified a clear-cut policy and fighting guidelines for infinitely developing the military capability for self-defence for most righteously and creditably defending the present and future of the country and its people in today's tough world where the confrontation of strength decides life and death.

They raised loud cheers of "Hurrah!" as a reflection of their firm resolve to bolster up the war deterrent and the capability for fighting a war to be so overwhelming that the hostile forces dare not use their military muscle against their country by equipping themselves fully with the steel-strong faith and revolutionary will of the great WPK and cementing the super-strength in the country's possession to be more absolute and irreversible.

Comrade Kim Jong Un gave written orders in the name of the chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK on equipping the first-line units of the KPA on the frontier with the new-type tactical ballistic missiles to the chief of the KPA General Staff and commanders of the large combined frontline units.

He personally awarded the colours and certificates of the colours of the new missile units to the commanders, political commissars and chiefs of staff of relevant units.

Stormy cheers rocked the venue of the ceremony, where a great event to be specially recorded in the history of building a powerful and modern Juche-oriented army was witnessed.

There was a ceremony of the combined military band.

Members of the band and the guard of honour added joy and militant enthusiasm to the great auspicious event by making various formation changes and showing smart rifle-handling skills to the dynamic tune of revolutionary military music.

There took place a demonstration march of the frontline missile artillerymen's units that received new weapons.

The tactical ballistic missile launchers preceded by the glorious colours moved forward, being reviewed by Kim Jong Un.

Comrade Kim Jong Un gave a militant salute to the ultimate weapons that vividly reflect the patriotic souls of the red workers of the munitions industry, dedicated to the sacred cause of historic significance of the nation to firmly bolster up the world's greatest self-defensive military capability, and symbolize an epoch-making improvement of the military supremacy of the armed forces of the DPRK.

At the end of the ceremony, cheers of "Hurrah!" filled with loyalty and patriotic zeal of the participants, resounded far and wide through the nocturnal sky.

Looking round the new-type weapons again together with leading officials of the Party, the government and the military, and commanding officers of the large combined units, Kim Jong Unn expressed belief that the latest, elite weapons, another firm stepping stone for injecting tremendous vitality into the name and flag of the DPRK and remarkably enhancing its prestige, would demonstrate their might as a powerful treasured sword in defending the sovereignty of the country and peace.

The commissioning ceremony of new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, held in the presence of Kim Jong Un, will be recorded in history as a historic event which further strengthened the iron faith of the army and people, advancing under the ever-victorious leadership of the great Party Central Committee, in the validity and invincibility of their cause and their conviction in the future of the country that will endlessly become powerful and prosperous.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Ceremony of Transferring and Receiving New-type Tactical Ballistic Missile System

On August 4 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, attended the ceremony of transferring and receiving new-type tactical ballistic missile system and made a speech.

He said:

Comrades,

Today we have gathered for this characteristic ceremony to celebrate the transferring of new-type tactical weapons to our army.

We are now witnessing a moment of the course of our state's defence capability increasing day by day.

Representatives of defence scientists and munitions industry workers, who have worked with devotion in the struggle to produce these tactical weapons of great military significance, which would fill up the major gaps in our state's defence capability and form a main force in our military forces,

Officers and soldiers of the frontline missile artillerymen’s units, who will soon receive the new weapons,

Dear comrades,

As you see, we are now facing 250 new-type tactical ballistic missile launchers, which our munitions industry workers have produced by their own efforts and technology.

Those weapons, lining up in columns in front of us, will be transferred to our army now and will play an important military role in the border areas of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

This of course means no more than attaining our first-stage goal of building missile forces in the first-line units on the front.

Every year we will show the whole world without filtering the procedure of the change of generations of our military hardware with new ones.

It is because this has enough special effect on deterring war.

The world is witnessing the course of development of our armed forces.

We have become able to take the operational initiative with the overwhelming attack forces and striking means superior to the enemy on all fronts, achieve the multifaceted nature of the spaces of firepower tasks and improve the practical effectiveness of the special physical strength, tactical nuke.

I am very pleased to make public that an important item in the practical guidelines for building up the military capability, which was decided on at the Eighth Congress of our Party and the enlarged meetings of the Central Military Commission of the Party held during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, has been brought to fruition.

Greeting this moment that declares a great change in our armed forces and their prospective development, I, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, extend warm thanks to the workers, scientists and officials in the munitions industry, who have proudly carried out their revolutionary tasks of great strategic significance in steadily developing our state's self-reliant national defence capability.

Comrades,

Thanks to the firepower of this weapon system, presenting a threatening appearance for the first time since the founding of our country and army, we have become able to possess a sure and overwhelming strength with which to contain the enemy's reckless provocative moves against us.

The fact that these military hardware of a new generation have been produced in less than one year in the circumstances, in which the hostile forces' challenges and moves of blockade persisted on an unprecedentedly extreme degree, adequately demonstrates the potential and might of our self-reliant defence industry.

By waging a heroic production struggle and presenting the products encapsulating their pure conscience and ennobling outlook on life, our munitions industry workers fully demonstrated the faith and revolutionary nature inherent in them.

What I am most pleased with today is that I have confirmed once again the ennobling spiritual world of the munitions industry workers, who clearly remember their lineage and origin and are faithful and dignified in remaining true to their honourable original name of successors to the Kunjari spirit.

The strength of our defence industry is not merely the might of our defence science. Rather, it is a strength of the absolute loyalty these workers are displaying in unconditionally and perfectly carrying out the Party's decisions and plans from the standpoint that doing so is their ennobling duty.

Absolute, unconditional and perfect implementation is our munitions industry workers' invariable raison d'etre, lifeline and unique quality.

True to the orders of the Party Central Military Commission, the workers, scientists and officials in the munitions industry have made strenuous efforts to manufacture hundreds of cutting-edge military hardware, thereby fulfilling the strategic plan for developing our state's war deterrent to the highest level possible. By doing so, they have instilled an overwhelming sense of dignity and honour in all the patriotic people of this country, and inspired them with renewed confidence in final victory. I highly appreciate them and offer positive encouragement to them in their efforts for more proud successes.

Comrades,

As the relationship of the U.S.-led alliance is, in terms of its nature and character, evolving into a nuclear-based military bloc, the military security environment surrounding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is facing drastic changes, both strategically and structurally.

This highlights the fact that our state has no reason to rest content with its current level of war deterrent.

To look back on the past five years, we can see that the concept of nuclear has been associated with every military action targeting the DPRK taken by the United States, and now its vassal states have grown reckless enough to share its nukes.

This situation demands that we keep accelerating the development of our Republic's armed forces for maintaining their supremacy, and also of the self-reliant defence industry that provides solid support to this end.

Genuine peace can be guaranteed only by the build-up of immense strength.

Negotiations and confrontation are among our options, but we must be more thoroughly prepared to cope with the latter--this is the review and conclusion we have derived from the 30-odd years of dealing with the United States, and it is the keynote of our consistent policy towards the United States.

The fact that the United States and the groups of its top-class stooges are overstepping the mark in their outrageous military manoeuvres provides evidence for the justice of our cause, and this compels us to bolster up our self-defensive military capability more perfectly and rapidly. This will inevitably hasten the failure, shame and destruction on the part of the enemy.

The United States we are now confronting is by no means an administration that remains in power for a tenure of some years, but a hostile state that our descendants, too, will have to counter generation after generation. This fact testifies to the inevitability of the steady improvement of our defence capability.

We should possess the capability to cope on our own initiative with new, potential dangers to our security, as well as the various imminent threats by the United States. This is a crucial task for providing a long-term guarantee for defending the sovereignty, security, interests and territorial integrity of our state.

At present, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has built up its national system of nuclear forces, with which to promptly counter any type of threatening actions by the nuclear-armed enemy states, and we have made steady efforts to make the nuclear forces fully ready for action.

However, witnessing the rapidly-changing global security environment and the reckless expansion of the U.S.-led military bloc system, we have come to a conclusion that the nuclear forces of our state and its nuclear posture should be more thoroughgoing and perfect, and we feel its necessity every day and every minute.

Our mightiness is not what it is now, but it lies in our relentless pursuit of mightiness.

Stagnation in military supremacy is just the beginning of inferiority in defence capability.

We must never forget that if we rest content with the present level of supremacy that has taken so much cost for us to reach, we should pay more later.

Clear is our standpoint in coping with the U.S. moves to aggravate the situation.

If it continues attempting to jeopardize the security of the region in disregard of our repeated warnings, we will make the United States acutely aware that there will be fatal consequences for its own security.

I make it clear once again: Whether engaged in negotiations or confrontation, possessing a great military strength is an obligation and right a sovereign state must never neglect or budge on at any moment.

Unless an end is put to the nuclear threat against us, and as long as there exist the imperialist forces that resort to nukes as a means of their tyranny, there will never be a moment’s halt or a breathing space on our journey for the consolidation of our nuclear war deterrent.

Our strength will continue to evolve, and our military supremacy will deny its limits forever.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will resolutely face both imminent and potential challenges by attaining a more refined and improved posture of its nuclear forces as soon as possible to contain any nuclear threats and defend itself from them.

Given the fact that the United States and its vassal forces have been tightening the screw on the DPRK by resorting to military means, Kim Jong Un said, it has been an indisputable option for the DPRK to make sustained efforts to increase its defence capability.

He went on:

Building up the nuclear war deterrent and developing it to the highest level possible is the best option for effectively confronting the nuclear blackmail and multi-faceted isolation schemes by the United States and for earmarking a larger investment for economic development and improvement of the people's living standards--this is the principled standpoint we have consistently maintained over the last ten or so years since we proclaimed the new line of promoting the country's economic construction and building up its nuclear forces simultaneously, and its validity and viability have been clearly proved through practice.

We should always bear this in mind, and work hard to achieve the goals of the five-year strategy for defence development advanced by the eighth-term Central Committee of the Party, uncompromisingly and faultlessly, thoroughly and completely.

The munitions industry must never compromise on its absolute mission that increased production of military hardware provides a sure guarantee for safeguarding the country's sovereignty and enhancing its prestige; it should work hard to achieve greater and prouder successes in attaining the Party's objectives for modernizing the defence industry and in carrying out its task of producing weapons of the Juche type.

The army units, to which the new-type weapon system is to be transferred, should master the new system as early as possible, actively organize and conduct training in a real-war atmosphere to operate it so effectively as to maximize its efficiency in battle, and maintain a prompt and proper operational posture. In this way, they can creditably implement their military duties to deter war and take the initiative.

What our proud new missile units will receive today is not merely the new weapons.

Like all other weapons of ours, these embody our people's firm will to put an end to the threats of aggression against our Republic, as well as their spirit of self-respect to make theirs an invincible country that no force will dare to attack and their desire to develop it into a powerful nation.

We will continue to develop and produce more powerful and sophisticated military hardware of our own style and deploy them for action, thus ensuring that the People's Army keeps gaining in strength over time.

The Party Central Committee will always accompany and properly lead our munitions industry workers, both faithful and dependable, on this responsible and important journey.

Comrades,

Let us bear in mind once again that absolute and matchless self-defence capability provides a sure guarantee for independence, justice and peace.

Ever-developing, inexhaustible strength is fundamental to our eternal victory, genuine peace, happiness and safety.

Let us all strive undauntedly and achieve constant transformations and innovative successes for the independent development of our great state and a peaceful and prosperous new life of our people.