Full transcript
of the KCNA press release.
Kim Jong Un Guides KPA Services' Drill of Hitting Enemy Naval
Target
Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- A drill of services of the Korean
People's Army (KPA) for hitting enemy naval target was staged at the
personal initiative of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un.
He visited the drill ground to guide the drill, accompanied by Hwang
Pyong So, Hyon Yong Chol, Ri Yong Gil, Kim Yong Chol and Ri Pyong
Chol.
He was greeted on the spot by Air Force Col. General Choe Yong Ho,
commander of the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force, Air Force Lieut. General
Son Chol Ju, political commissar of the Air and Anti-Air Force, Navy
Lieut. Ri Yong Ju, vice-chief of the KPA General Staff, Navy Lieut.
Ho Yong Chun, political commissar of the KPA Navy, Navy Rear Admiral
Jin Chol Su, head of the East Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy.
The drill was conducted with main emphasis on rounding off the war
method of mounting surprise air and naval attacks on the U.S. imperialists'
carrier which sailed into the operation waters in the southern half
to make military strikes at strategic targets of the DPRK and helping
combat flying corps and submarine units get familiar with combat methods,
command and coordination.
After acquainting himself with the order and methods of services to
strike an islet simulating an enemy carrier, he issued an order to
the guards air division and groups to make sorties.
Fighter airmen made zero feet flight and got close to the enemy carrier
by boldly breaking through its dense network of anti-air defence and
mounted zooming attack on it, giving the enemy no breathing spell.
Then combined submarine units made torpedo attacks in succession from
ambushed waters on the enemy forces hit hard by air strikes.
Underscoring the need to intensify KPA services' maneuvers of striking
carrier task group of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, he said
if the KPA steadily studies and rounds off the war methods of mercilessly
striking the enemy's backbone by the guerrillas-style combat method,
well aware of his weak points, it is quite possible to send even a
carrier to the bottom of the sea. He gave important instructions for
bolstering up the operation capabilities of the units of all services.
The enemies boast of their latest military science and technology
but one cannot give precedence to scientific and technological estimation
only when making comparison between the military capabilities of the
warring parties, and the fight with the enemies is not only the confrontation
between arms and equipment and physical strength but the confrontation
of mental power and ideology of people, he said, emphasizing our just
and great war for national reunification based on the warm love and
absolute trust in our own things is sure to triumph.
Calling upon our generation to force the U.S. to write once again
another disgraceful page in the history of its navy, he underscored
the need to make the U.S. imperialists experience on their land the
dreadful horror, shudder and bitter defeat they have never done in
the war with the DPRK.
He solemnly declared that we have no willingness to sit any longer
with the rabid dogs openly barking that they will bring down by the
method of bringing about "changes" the socialist system,
the cradle which our people consider dearer than their own lives,
slandering the ideology and social system chosen by them as "totalitarian"
and the like. He said with confidence that the DPRK is ready to react
to any form of war, operation and battle to be wanted and chosen by
the U.S. imperialists and fully ready to counter any war including
a war by conventional armed forces and a nuclear war.
