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, inspected the training base of the special operation forces of the Korean People's Army to guide the drill of combatants on September 11.

He was accompanied by Marshal Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, Ri Chang Ho, deputy chief of the General Staff and director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau of the KPA, Kim Yong Bok, deputy chief of the KPA General Staff, and other commanding officers in the field of operation and training of the KPA General Staff.

Kim Jong Un went round different facilities in the training base to learn in detail about the situation.

Highly appreciating the base which is strictly training the combatants to be versatile ones by furnishing all the facilities and training grounds in a way that drills simulating an actual war can be conducted efficiently, he stressed the need for the Ministry of National Defence and the General Staff to pay positive attention to providing conditions for further updating training facilities and putting their operation on a scientific basis in the future.

He mounted the observation post to watch the combatants conducting a drill of scouting and raiding objects according to a training programme.

All the combatants, who have shed the sweat of loyalty and feats at training grounds with the firm readiness to make a sudden attack on the heart of the enemy and open up the route of advance of the attacking units at a go when the moment of fierce decisive battle comes, fully demonstrated the fighting mettle and spirit of the invincible revolutionary armed forces, which are able to fight a real war and surely win victory once they fight, also in the training conducted in the presence of Kim Jong Un.

Looking with satisfaction at the soldiers, who were sweeping the training ground like lightning, being well versed in the Juche-based and modern combat methods, he highly praised all the combatants for thoroughly maintaining the sure war posture after growing up as stout and brave a-match-for-a-hundred combatants through revolutionary and intensive training.

Saying that he felt assured and proud to see the soldiers prepared as brave fighters like tightly-packed bullets, he encouraged the combatants who have grown up to be reliable guards and passionate warriors of the KPA which always emerges victorious and had a photo session with them.

The combatants, who received high praise and great honour in the benevolent embrace of the invincible and iron-willed brilliant commander, were full of boundless gratitude and joy and infinite pride and self-esteem, which turned into enthusiastic cheers as loud as thunder.

Saying that as seen in today’s training, such competent and stalwart fighters are needed in the KPA, he gave important instructions calling for more firmly building up the special operation forces of the KPA by training possessors of a-match-for-a-hundred spirit and core combatants capable of wiping out the enemies while courageously sweeping battlefields where bullets and shells rain thick and fast without the slightest hesitation in case of emergency.

Considering the mood and character of modern warfare, to make well-trained and prepared special operation forces as the main combat force in the battlefield has an important influence on the outcome of battles, and the building of special operation forces is an important component in the building of the armed forces of the DPRK, he said, and set forth the militant task of putting main efforts into strengthening elite Korean-style special operation forces by holding fast to the line of making a revolution in training, ideas and equipment.

Referring to the need to keep intensifying actual war drills above anything else, he said that as he always emphasizes, sweating a lot in training is the way to shed less blood in a war, a war is not preceded by any notice and, therefore, the KPA should be fully ready to control the enemies at a stroke immediately, mercilessly sweep them away and completely subjugate them even if a war breaks out right today. It is the primary patriotism and loyalty to the state and people and the foremost revolutionary duty for armed soldiers to devote their all to the intensive actual war drills, he said.

He conclusively said that it is necessary to continue to make strict demands in training and constantly improve the contents and methods of Korean-style training so as to get fully ready for war and thereby compel the enemies to shed blood when they encounter the KPA soldiers in case of emergency.

Saying that victory of an army is unthinkable if it is not possessed of the might of ideology, he stated that even a well-prepared army is nothing but an undisciplined army if it has no ideology and that victory will always on the side of the servicemen when they become genuinely patriotic soldiers who know the Party, the country and the people before knowing how to fight. He called for more wonderfully cultivating and giving full play to the political and ideological advantages peculiar to the KPA and thus preparing the soldiers more firmly as the strongest in mental power.

In intensifying ideological education among the service personnel, class education is an important task which should never be neglected even a moment, he said, calling for conducting the education in an offensive way to make all the service personnel keep as an element of their faith the unwavering anti-enemy consciousness and view of the principal enemy.

An indomitable and heroic character and fighting spirit that no other army in the world can imitate pervade all the ranks of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK and they will grow stronger in the future, too, and become a war deterrent preventing the enemy from provoking, being afraid of them for their reputation and entity alone, he said with confidence.

All the combatants were filled with revolutionary enthusiasm and high spirit to become the first standard-bearers who always defend the DPRK and its people most honourably and reliably in the vanguard of the advance by striving to build more perfect capability for fighting an actual war with a firm patriotic spirit, bearing in mind the great trust and expectation of Kim Jong Un who visited their training ground to tell them ever-victorious war methods and give them militant encouragement.