Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by the commanding officers of the ministry including KPA General Kim Won Hung, minister of State Security, and Col. General Kim Chang Sop, director of the Political Bureau of the ministry.

Kim Jong Un paid tribute to the statue of Kim Jong Il together with the commanding officers.

He watched the statue of smiling Kim Jong Il for a long while, the statue of the leader imposingly standing in a padded dress telling every event of the Songun revolution, one of his hands placed on his waist. He looks as if he were powerfully encouraging all servicepersons and people in the struggle to win a final victory, wishing the great Paektusan nation a rosy future.

The statue was depicted very well, indeed, he said, adding that servicepersons and people were familiar with the image of Kim Jong Il wearing a pair of glasses in a padded dress. "I feel as if I saw him", he said with deep emotion.

He said that the erection of the statue of Kim Jong Il at the Ministry of Statue Security is a vivid expression of the unshakable will of all security men to protect the work to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche generation after generation.

He had a talk with the commanding officers of the ministry in front of the statue.

"The Ministry of State Security has a very important duty to perform to protect the sovereignty of the country and the nation", he noted, calling on the security men to be fully aware of their heavy yet honorable combat mission.

"The security men should wage a fierce struggle against the enemies on the invisible front as they did always", he said, adding:

"The security men should make a revolution, remaining loyal to the party to the last in any storm and stress", he noted, adding that to this end, they should cherish unshakable faith like pure gold remaining unburned even in flames.

He underscored the need to intensify the struggle to decisively foil the ideological and cultural poisoning and psychological warfare of the enemies, while following their moves with vigilance, and make sustained energetic endeavors to put the work for state security on an ultra-modern and IT basis.

He had a photo session with the commanding officers of the ministry in front of the statue of Kim Jong Il, expressing conviction that all its security men would fulfill their honorable mission on the road of decisively foiling the moves of the imperialists and reactionaries to stifle the DPRK by displaying a do-or-die spirit and matchless courage.

He was accompanied by Vice Marshal of the KPA Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA.