The sports complex with a plottage of nearly 10,000 square meters is a modern sports complex having sports facilities for all kinds of events including basketball, volleyball and indoor football, cultural and welfare facilities and all amenities for spectators.

Vice Marshal of the KPA Kim Yong Chun, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK, vice-chairman of the NDC and minister of the People's Armed Forces, made an inaugural speech.

Kim Jong Il looked round the exterior and interior of the magnificent sports complex. He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that soldier-builders have successfully built one more great structure meeting the need of the era of Songun in a short span of time and highly appreciated their shining feats.

At the end of the inaugural ceremony, he together with the senior officials who accompanied him watched a match played by sports groups of the KPA on the occasion of the inauguration of the complex.

To develop sports is of very weighty importance in augmenting the country's might by successfully pushing forward the revolutionary struggle and construction and boosting the friendly relations with various countries of the world, he said, setting forth important tasks to serve as guidelines for rapidly developing the nation's sports.

Present at the inaugural ceremony were senior officials of party and armed forces organs Kim Jong Un, Ri Yong Ho, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Kyong Hui, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Gak, Kim Yang Gon, Pak To Chun, Choe Ryong Hae, Thae Jong Su, Kim Phyong Hae, Mun Kyong Dok, U Tong Chuk, Ju Kyu Chang, Kim Chang Sop, Ri Myong Su and members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK Kim Kyong Ok, Kim Won Hong, Kim Myong Guk, Jong Myong Do, Ri Pyong Chol, Choe Pu Il and Kim Yong Chol and Hyon Chol Hae, department director of the NDC, Pak Myong Chol, minister of Physical Culture and Sports, service persons of the KPA and sports persons of the army.