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, on September 6 inspected O Jin U Artillery Academy, a pedigree establishment for training the backbone of the artillery force in the country.

In order to thoroughly implement the powerful army-building line and policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which has set it as an urgent task to bolster up the Juche-based naval force as required by the historic turning point in building up the country’s defence capabilities and the army, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a field survey for the construction of a modern naval base and clarified the orientation and ways to this end.

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 a defence industrial enterprise under the Second Economy Commission to learn about the production of military hardware.

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, guided the shipbuilding on the spot.

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 on August 27 a test-fire of the 240mm-calibre MRLS under production at defence industrial enterprises under the Second Economy Commission.

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.

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.

The people’s Air Force of the Korean People’s Army perfectly carried out the special order of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea by rapidly flying to the flooded areas in the northwestern part of North Phyongan Province and rescuing over 4 200 precious lives. The legendary feats of the courageous red flying corps of the Workers’ Party of Korea that displayed an indomitable fighting spirit are stirring the whole country.

Recently record heavy rain lashed the northern border area of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, causing damage.

Tremendous human and material damage by the influence of disastrous abnormal weather, which gets more serious with each passing day, has become a difficult problem of the world.

Shortly ago, floods and heavy rains seriously and consecutively damaged some areas of the country, including North Phyongan and Jagang provinces.

In this regard, the 22nd emergency enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held in an afflicted area in the city of Sinuiju, North Phyongan Province, from July 29 to 30 to take urgent rehabilitation measures.

The 546th triplets were born at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital in the DPRK, and left the hospital on July 19.