PYONGYANG, Mar 9 (NNN-KCNA) – The top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), called for bolstering up the navy’s combat power, while inspecting the country’s major shipyards, it was reported yesterday.
The basic orientation for radically bolstering up the navy’s combat power is “to simultaneously push forward with the modernisation of water-surface and underwater warships, and the further improvement of their operational capabilities,” Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, was quoted as saying.
He stressed the need to decisively enhance the warship-building capacity, on the basis of the existing experience and technology, and “put spurs to the improvement of overall technical processes,” in a bid to build a large number of modern warships of different missions, desired by the naval force.
Kim also learned about the building of a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine.
The DPRK would “never remain an idle onlooker, to the naval and underwater military activities of the enemies,” he said, adding that, the DPRK will “reliably defend the maritime sovereignty and firmly ensure a security guarantee on the Korean Peninsula and in the region ,through the important innovations and changes of its naval force and the upper hand in the ever-evolving strength.”– NNN-KCNA
