He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the large combined unit.

He mounted the observation deck to be briefed on the exercise program by its commanding officer.

He issued an order to start the exercise.

When a signal flares up, various types of artillery pieces opened fire all at once with the bugle sound.

Signals flared up from all trenches of the "enemy" on mountain ridges after they were occupied at a breath and hurrahs were heard from soldiers.

He highly appreciated the successful exercise.

He said the exercise proved that the KPA is raising a hot wind of training after ideologically accepting the spirit of the recent meeting of the Central Military Commission of the WPK.

He set forth important tasks to be carried out to get the KPA ready for combat as required by the prevailing situation.

He noted that it is necessary to continue directing big efforts to strengthening the KPA in order to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, Songun revolutionary cause started in the forest of Mt. Paektu generation after generation.

He called for preparing all service personnel as stalwart fighters possessed of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's strategy and tactics, bold offensive methods and perfect capability to fight an actual war.

It is important for defeating the enemies to steadily round off the study of the Korean style combat methods suited to a modern war and promptly wipe them out, not giving them a breathing spell, once a war breaks out, he said.

He underlined the need for the soldiers to always keep themselves highly alerted and step up combat preparations, aware at all times that they should be ready to fight against the enemies any time.

The service personnel are fully determined to return fire for fire and mercilessly annihilate the aggressors once they intrude into the territory of the DPRK even an inch, said Kim Jong Un, calling on them to deal merciless, just retaliatory blows at the enemies if they perpetrate a provocation.

He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Hyon Yong Chol, Kim Kyok Sik, Ri Yong Gil, Son Chol Ju, Ryom Chol Song, Yun Tong Hyon, Pang Kwan Bok, Yun Tong Hui, Hwang Pyong So and Hong Yong Chil.