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, toured major shipyards to give field guidance at their shipbuilding.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted by leading officials of those shipyards.

Accompanying him were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Admiral Kim Myong Sik, commander of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, and major leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.

He acquainted himself with the ongoing work for attaining the goal of building warships set forth by the Party Congress and the technical equipment level and modernization of shipyards.

He expressed great satisfaction over the high spirit and labor feats of the workers who are registering signal successes in the implementation of the militant task for radically improving the modernity of our navy in the shortest span of time in line with the primary requirement for the state security and the world trend of naval force development.

He was reported on the progress made in attaining with confidence the goals for putting the shipbuilding industry on a Juche, modern and scientific basis, set forth by the Party Central Committee, by pushing ahead with the work for technical updating and enhancement of the production capacity to ensure the rapid development of our naval force.

He gave a high appreciation of the fact that a firm prospect has been opened for introducing into the operation the strongest warships capable of establishing the core of the Juche naval force and meeting all the requirements of the national defence strategy in the shortest possible time, true to the strategic line of our Party on building the national defence.

He said that the maritime sovereignty is the core of the sovereign rights of our country, whose both eastern and western sides are washed by seas, and the development of the naval force into an elite and nuclear-armed force constitutes an important content in the strategy for the development of the national defence which intensively reflects our Party's will to defend the sovereignty at present.

Only when there is a powerful naval force that no one can provoke, is it possible to defend the security of the country and the people and ensure normal development of the fishing industry and the overall national economy, he said, adding that the sea is an inviolable territory where the dignity and prestige of our state and the people's life are ensured, before it is an indefinite site for prosperity.

Saying that the eternal history of our socialist Korea depends on how we defend the sea, a major front decisive of the life and death of the state and people and a main route of aggression by the enemy countries, he stressed the need to make the incomparably overwhelming warships fulfill their mission as powerful deterrent of a nuclear power capable of containing the inveterate "gunboat diplomacy" of the hostile forces.

It is really significant progress that the rejuvenation of the DPRK's ideal warship-building industry has entered the full-scale stage of laying a sure foundation and kindling the flame of modernization while enduring hardships, he said, stressing the need to decisively enhance the warship-building capacity on the basis of the existing precious experience and technology and put spurs to the improvement of overall technical processes, and thus build a large number of modern warships of different missions desired by our naval force.

The key to radically strengthening the warship-building industry, which can be called an aggregate of ultra-modern defence science and technology, is the science and technology and training of talents, he said, calling for regarding them as the two elements for development and leap forward so as to vigorously lead the rejuvenation of warship-building industry, whose new appearance will be recorded in the history of the DPRK.

He said that the modernization of the shipyards, which should play an important role in the revolution in the new era for bolstering up the naval force, should not be conducted in the passive method of bridging the gaps in the processes of the existing foundation, but in the way of boldly and perfectly creating new and high-tech bases suited to the prestige and status of a powerful nation. And he clarified the strategic plan of the WPK for doing so.

He said that the DPRK would never remain an idle onlooker to the naval and underwater military activities of the enemies seriously threatening the sovereignty and interests of the DPRK by constantly deploying large numbers of strategic assets but reliably defend the maritime sovereignty and firmly ensure a security guarantee on the Korean peninsula and the region through the important innovations and changes of its naval force and the upper hand in the ever-evolving strength.

Noting that the justness to put the DPRK naval force's war posture and capability to fight a war on the most powerful and perfect level is increasing the DPRK's will and desire for the rejuvenation of the warship-building industry, he affirmed that the sea defence capability of the DPRK, which is in a responsible and key position for defending peace in the Korean peninsula and the region, will be fully displayed in any necessary waters without limitation.

He expressed expectation and belief that all the officials and workers in the warship-building industry would further consolidate the arsenal for defending the maritime sovereignty with a courageous struggle, well aware of their sacred honor and important mission as revolutionary industrial soldiers of the WPK who is responsible for the fatal state affair holding sway over the future of the DPRK's navy and the territorial integrity and peace keeping of the country.

The basic orientation for radically bolstering up the navy's combat power valued by the Party is to simultaneously push forward with the modernization of water-surface and underwater warships and the further improvement of their operational capabilities, he said, and advanced the long-term essential plan for the possession of the warships and its stepwise goals to substantially guarantee the mission of the DPRK's armed forces to defend the maritime sovereignty and the future direction of the defence economic work and all the tasks for doing so.

He also learned about the building of a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine pushed forward with under the decision of the 8th Congress of the WPK.

His field guidance at the major shipyards is a significant event heralding a new phase of bolstering up the Juche-based naval force.