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, visited the Training Camp No. 60 of the Capital City Defence Corps of the KPA and watched the tactical drill demonstrations of different arms held under the training course of the conference of training officers.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, Jong Kyong Thaek, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, and other leading commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and military and political commanding officers of large combined units of the KPA.

Before watching the drill, Kim Jong Un acquainted himself with the function and components of the training base and appreciated that all conditions are well provided for properly conducting various tactical drills of sub-units as befitting the multi-functional combined training base.

He watched various tactical drill demonstrations together with commanding officers of the KPA at the observation post.

The participants in the Conference of the Training Officers of the Korean People's Army watched the demonstrations, too.

The combat training department of the KPA General Staff explained to visitors the forms, methods and contents of various tactical drills and matches.

Various tactical drills conducted by special operations sub-units for passing the standard of all-purpose battalion and the training match between tankmen's sub-units held afterwards aroused the visitors' special interest.

Kim Jong Un said that the scientific combat training system has been established throughout the whole army as our Party set forth the five-point policy for effecting a revolution in the training and showed deep interest in thoroughly establishing the traits of prioritizing training at all levels of the People's Army in keeping with the developing patterns and changing trend of modern warfare, strengthening the integral system of organizing, judging and reviewing training, and putting main stress on the actual war drills. He affirmatively appreciated that this promotes substantial changes in the training sector and the strengthening and development of combat capability of units and sub-units.

He said:

Amid the training matches of different services and arms being held in an innovative way in various spheres to cope with the actual war, changes began to take place in the understanding of the training officials. The fundamental change in the viewpoint on training will play a great role in cultivating the high combat spirit of the service personnel, fully perfecting the military and technical preparations and enhancing the combat efficiency and effectiveness of our weapon systems and this serves as a potential driving force for developing our armed forces' capability to fight a war to the full.

Saying that our revolutionary armed forces are now in charge of not a few fronts, but the most important among them is the anti-imperialist class front and making full preparations for war is the most crucial task, he stressed that combat drill to turn the whole army into an elite ranks that are prepared thoroughly and perfectly to execute any order is the first revolutionary task.

In order to implement the Party's military strategic plan for making the special operations forces all-purpose arms and all-round specialists, it is important to launch a vigorous revolutionary movement to pass the standard of all-purpose battalion, he said.

The modern warfare is a showdown between military talents and war of commanding officers' brains, he said, stressing that in order to firmly maintain and strengthen the qualitative superiority of our army, all combat drills should be organized on the principle of enhancing the initiative, independence and creativity of commanding officers and practical brain drills and actual maneuvers should be intensified.

Saying that the reliable prospect for building a powerful army desired by our Party is provided on the training front and the combat preparations of the People's Army are completed and guaranteed from the training sector, he stressed the need to decisively improve the quality of military education and put main emphasis on training and strengthening the ranks of training officers.

He underlined the need to perfect in all aspects the training apparatuses and elements of training grounds for preparing all levels for modern warfare as required by the reality that urges the qualitative change of our armed forces, to introduce IT system and scientific judgment system into training and to establish a new training system in keeping with the developing trend of the new century.

That day, he met the combatants of the sub-unit under the 11th Corps of the KPA who passed the standard of all-purpose battalion and appreciated and warmly encouraged them, saying that they played a role as vanguard fighters in bringing about revolution in training and as model for rounding off the war preparations. Then he had a photo session with them.

He clarified different tasks for fundamentally improving the contents, forms and methods of operational and combat drills in the training sector and making the drills part of life and habit in order to prepare the People's Army to be the one capable of fighting a war at any time and the one that wins without fail if it fights, and for expanding its strategic potential as a powerful army.

He wished the seventh conference of training officers would mark an epochal leap forward in further enhancing the qualities and abilities of all the training officers and extended militant encouragement to all the participants in the conference.