FIFTH MEETING OF TRAINING OFFICERS OF KPA HELD UNDER GUIDANCE OF KIM JONG UN

 Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- The Fifth Meeting of Training Officers of the Korean People's Army took place here on April 24 and 25 under the guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The meeting analyzed and reviewed the achievements and experience gained in the combat and political training of the KPA in the past and lessons drawn from it and discussed the tasks and ways of bolstering up the combat capabilities of the KPA in every way.

Present at the meeting were KPA commanding officers, training officers and officials of military education institutions and the relevant fields.

Kim Jong Un made an opening address.

Expressing belief that the meeting would satisfactorily carry out its work amid a high degree of political enthusiasm and positive participation of all participants and thus mark a historic occasion in bringing about an epochal turn in the training of the KPA and further increasing the invincible might of the powerful Paektusan revolutionary army, he declared the meeting opened.

KPA Army General Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, made a report at the meeting.

Speeches were made at the meeting.

Ri Yong Gil read out a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on awarding the title of DPRK labor hero and gold medal (hammer and sickle) and Order of National Flag First Class to commanding officers and training officers who performed feats in bolstering up the combat capabilities of the units in the past.

Kim Jong Un personally awarded the title of the DPRK labor hero and gold medal (hammer and sickle) and Order of National Flag First Class to KPA General Kim Rak Gyom and KPA officers Hwang Yong Un, Ju In Su, Yu Tok Chol, Kim Kyong Su, Kong Yong Gil and Rim Jang Ho.

Kim Jong Un made a speech at the meeting.

The most important and urgent tasks facing the KPA at present is to bring about a radical turn in training and thus round off the combat preparations in line with the strategic intention of the party and prepare all commanding officers and soldiers politically and ideologically and in military technique and physically so that they may successfully carry out any combat duty by themselves, he said.

Noting that the party is determined to bring about a radical turn in training by staking the destiny of the country, people and nation on it, true to the intention of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, he put up at the meeting the slogan "Let Us Bring about a Radical Turn in Training and Thus Make the People's Army the Most Elite Revolutionary Army Winning Every Battle!"

He said that the main link in the chain efforts to bring about a radical turn in training is to conduct drills under the simulated conditions of an actual battle and put them on a scientific and modern basis.

The idea of conducting drills in such a way means a full application and development in depth of the principle and contents of training clarified by leader Kim Jong Il, he said, instructing the KPA to take firm hold on conducting drills under the simulated conditions of an actual battle and putting on a scientific and modern basis as the seed and main link in effecting a drastic turn in training and channel all efforts into the drive for doing so.

The idea and theory of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on military training serve as a great programme for training clarifying the Juche-based principles and contents of military training and the guidelines to be always held fast to in conducting drills.

He underlined the need for the training officers to steadily study and work hard to possess noble spiritual and moral traits, scientific and theoretical and working qualifications as frontline soldiers standing guard over the outpost for bolstering up combat capabilities and to arouse the service personnel to bring about a radical turn in training by setting examples.

He expressed his firm belief that all service personnel would thoroughly embody the spirit of the meeting, well aware of the important mission and duty they have assumed before the era and the revolution.

A message of pledge to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting.

He made a closing address.

Noting that all training officers of the army met and discussed an important issue of bringing about a radical turn in the training of the People's Army, he said he was very satisfied with the fact that the meeting was held at a very proper time and proved successful.

He called on all the participants in the meeting to focus all their efforts on the training as the top priority task, not forgetting even a moment that training precisely means safeguarding the party and the socialist motherland, and play the role of fuses and unquenchable flames in making the whole army undergo more intensive training just as the anti-Japanese guerrillas did in Mt. Paektu.

Expressing belief that all the participants in the meeting would take the lead in ushering in the heyday of bolstering up the military capabilities by improving the quality of training this year, he declared the meeting closed.

Kim Jong Un Inspects Construction Site in Pyongyang International Airport

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the construction site of Terminal 2 of Pyongyang International Airport nearing completion.

Feasting his eyes on the terminal, he expressed satisfaction over its construction, saying the white tiger symbolic of the brave Korean nation depicted on its outer wall brings to the spotlight the national identity and helps appreciate it is the terminal of Korea, though it is a modern structure.

He went round the departure hall, waiting lounge, arrival hall and basement parking lot and others to learn in detail about their construction.

Recalling that he had given an instruction to properly set the proportion of spaces in the construction of the departure hall and waiting lounge in such a way as to ensure that they provide convenience to passengers and guests and stand impeccable not only in architectural beauty but in formative art, he praised the builders for making a rational use of spaces in constructing the hall and the lounge to suit their use.

As the construction of the terminal is nearing its completion, it is necessary to successfully complete the last phase of its interior decoration, he said.

Stressing the need to distribute various service networks in a harmonious and peculiar manner, he called for arranging more service facilities in the spaces between the departure hall and the arrival hall to provide the best convenience to passengers.

He called for ensuring artistry, visual quality and cultural level in designing the logo of the airport, signboards of service networks and posters.

He noted that the building of the terminal is impeccably splendid and it would be possible to successfully complete the project when builders correct some defects in interior construction with conviction.

It is important to complete the construction as scheduled but what is more important is to wind up the project in such a manner as to show the proud appearance of the socialist system in the DPRK and the standard of the highly civilized nation as befitting the gate to Pyongyang, he stressed.

He expressed great expectation and belief that the soldier-builders would perfectly build the terminal as a monumental edifice in the era of Songun.

He was accompanied by Kim Yang Gon, Ri Jae Il, Ri Pyong Chol, Kim Yo Jong and Kim Nung O.

Kim Jong Un Watches Men's Football Match

Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, watched a men's football match between Sonbong and Hwoebul teams for the Mangyongdae Prize Sports Games at Kim Il Sung Stadium on Monday.

He appeared at the stadium auditorium with Ri Sol Ju.

The match began with the kick-off by the Sonbong Team.

Players of both teams gave fullest play to their spiritual, physical and technical abilities, showing spectacular scenes.

The Sonbong Team beat the Hwoebul Team 3:0 in the first half of the match.

In the interval there was a demonstration of model gliders by the Pyongyang Air Club.

The players of the Hwoebul Team made strong attacks to recover their lost game in the second half, but the match ended in the victory of the Sonbong Team 3:1.

At the end of the match, supreme leader Kim Jong Un congratulated the footballers on their successful match, kindly acknowledging the cheering spectators.

Watching the match were Choe Ryong Hae, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Yang Gon, Kwak Pom Gi, Kim Phyong Hae and members of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, officials in the field of sports, sportspersons, youth and students and working citizens.

Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun

Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun at 00:00, Wednesday, the Day of the Sun.

Kim Jong Un entered the hall where the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il are standing.

A floral basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was placed before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Also laid before the statues was a floral basket in the name of the Korean People's Army.

Kim Jong Un, together with the visitors, paid high tribute to the statues.

He entered the hall of immortality where Kim Il Sung lies in state.

He, together with the visitors, paid homage to Kim Il Sung in the humblest reverence.

Kim Jong Un entered the hall of immortality where Kim Jong Il lies in state.

He, together with visitors, paid homage to Kim Jong Il in the humblest reverence.

He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Ri Yong Gil, Kim Won Hong, Kim Chun Sam, Pak Yong Sik, Jo Kyong Chol and other commanding officers of the KPA.

Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Developers of Light Aircraft

Pyongyang, April 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, called the scientists, technicians, workers and officials who contributed to manufacturing light aircraft to the building of the Party Central Committee and had a photo session with them.

He said the development of the Korean-style light aircraft is another brilliant success made in the struggle to glorify the undying exploits President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed for the development of Juche-based air industry and to build a thriving nation. He highly appreciated the scientists, technicians, workers and officials for manufacturing the light aircraft whose all equipment and apparatuses were home-made.

He noted this success fully displayed the validity and vitality of the party's idea of breaking through the cutting edge and the might of Juche-based science and technology keeping up with the world.

A firm springboard was provided for the rapid development of the air industry of the country, he added.

He again spoke highly of the developers of light aircraft who worked in the spirit of the workers in Kunja-ri in the 1950s to show once again that the DPRK does whatever it determines to do and provided a proud gift presenting to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the WPK. And he had a picture taken with them.

Accompanying him were Kim Chun Sop, Ri Pyong Chol, Jo Chun Ryong and Jang Chang Ha.

80 Years Led by Songun Commanders

April 25 is the founding day of the Korean People’s Army.

For over 80 years the KPA has travelled the glorious road resplendent with victory as it has brilliant Songun commanders.

Under the Leadership of President Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), eternal President of the DPRK, expounded the principle of the Songun revolution, also the core of the idea of attaching importance to force of arms and military affairs, that a country and its people can defeat the armed imperialists, win victory in the revolution and carve out their destiny independently only when a revolutionary army should be built up above anything else.

By advancing such an original Songun idea and embodying it, he founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army (KPRA) on April 25, 1932, and thus paved the way for the Songun-based leadership. Under his command the KPRA fought the Japanese imperialists under difficult conditions without any support from a state or a regular army, and finally achieved Korea’s liberation on August 15, 1945.

After the liberation he put forward an army-building policy of developing the KPRA into the regular armed forces and wisely led the effort. In this way, the KPRA was reorganized into the Korean People’s Army (KPA) on February 8, 1948.

Thanks to his sagacious leadership, the young KPA could repulse the allied imperialist forces led by the United States who had been boasting of being the “strongest” in the world during the Korean war (1950-1953), thus safeguarding its country’s freedom and sovereignty with honour.

Under the Care of Chairman Kim Jong Il

By carrying forward the Songun-based leadership of the President, Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, started his Songun-based leadership with on-site inspection of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105^th Tank Division on August 25, 1960.

The Chairman was a peerlessly brilliant Songun commander who was identical with the President in respect of remarkable military acumen and adroit stratagem. He was endowed with an extraordinary insight with which to penetrate into covert essence within overt phenomenon and an outstanding foresight to take precautionary measures for the forthcoming developments in the military situation however trifling a change was. This is how the KPA has developed into an invincible strong army that is equipped with powerful and modern military hardware, both offensive and defensive, and that no formidable enemy dares to attack.

His stratagem featured by perseverance, quick decision and adroitness secured the DPRK fundamental guarantees for emerging ever-victorious in the military confrontation with the US, a self-styled “sole superpower.” During his ceaseless inspection tours of army units he, with a keen insight into the prevailing situation, unfolded adroit and superb plans of operations and taught the army men the strategies and tactics to annihilate the enemy at a stroke.

Whenever the US provoked confrontations with the DPRK in the postwar years by producing incidents of the Pueblo and the EC-121, a US armed spy ship and plane that had intruded into the latter’s territorial waters and airspace in the 1960s, the Panmunjom incident in the 1970s and fierce conflicts over nuclear issues in the 1990s and the early 2000s, it was the Korean side that always triumphed. The credit went to his far sighted and unusual wisdom and outstanding stratagem as befits the great Songun commander who penetrated the prevailing situation and its developments to take countermeasures and strike vital points of the enemy to bring them to their knees.

Under the Command of Marshal Kim Jong Un

Marshal Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the KPA, is now giving his energetic Songun-based leadership, raising its military power to an unprecedented level. Blessed with unexcelled military wisdom, the Marshal has developed in depth the Songun idea and military strategic lines of the President and the Chairman, and always takes the initiative in the acute showdown with the US, winning one victory after another. Ceaselessly making inspection tours of army units, he advances singular operational plans for the services, arms and special corps to the wonder of military experts and foils the machinations of the US and other hostile forces to stifle the DPRK, securing its status as a nuclear nation. He is, indeed, a brilliant military commander and a peerless strategist.

He is now recognized as the leader with matchless courage and pluck in the world political arena.

Having declared his iron will to remain invariable on the road of independence, the road of Songun and the road of socialism, however the world may change, he is never scared of formidable enemy and scathingly responds to their tough measures with his tougher ones. It is a clear testimony to his strong courage and pluck that he inspected frontline posts in a hair-trigger situation when the enemy were in the throes of a large-scale war game and called a meeting of pilots in grand style with the territorial airspace open.

His leadership art inherited from his predecessors is mainly featured by the ennobling will and benevolence with which he reads the ideas and feelings of the service personnel and always wins by dint of their single-minded unity. Under his command, all the KPA men and officers have prepared themselves to be ones incomparably strong in ideology and well-versed in military techniques.

Only victory will be in store for the KPA led by the great Songun commanders through generations.

KIM JONG UN GOES UP MT. PAEKTU WITH FIGHTER PILOTS OF KPA

Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, climbed the top of Mt. Paektu at dawn of Saturday, together with the members of KPA fighter pilots' expedition of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.

With a broad smile on his face, the Supreme Commander said that the looks of Mt. Paektu is impressive and the sunrise over Mt. Paektu is a charming and beautiful sight rare to be seen, adding the new morning of Korea dawns from Mt. Paektu.

Mt. Paektu is the ancestral mountain and the sacred mountain of revolution associated with the soul of the Korean nation and suggesting the spirit of Songun Korea, and it is the cradle of the Korean revolution, the symbol of victory and the eternal beacon of the Songun (army-first) revolution, he said, adding:

When one climbs snow-stormy Mt. Paektu and undergoes the blizzards over it, one can experience its real spirit and harden the resolution to accomplish the Korean revolution. Climbing Mt. Paektu provides precious mental pabulum more powerful than any kind of nuclear weapon and it is the way for carrying forward the revolutionary traditions of Paektu and giving steady continuity to the glorious Korean revolution.

The revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu, is the noble spirit the army and people of the DPRK should keep in their minds forever, he said, adding that they will have nothing to fear and they will do everything when they live in the spirit.

Saying that the Korean revolution started in Mt. Paektu is not yet over, he expressed expectation and belief that the fighter pilots would fully discharge their mission as heirs to the Songun revolution. And he had a photo session with them on the top of Mt. Paektu. 

KIM JONG UN MEETS FIGHTER PILOTS' EXPEDITION OF MT. PAEKTU AREA

Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Fighter pilots of the Korean People's Army toured the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu from April 11, on orders of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un.

On April 17 Kim Jong Un met on the spot with those pilots who successfully finished the tour and gave a pep-talk to them. He attended an oath-taking meeting of the fighter pilots held in the compound of the Samjiyon Grand Monument where the statue of President Kim Il Sung stands.

He made a speech there. He said he was very pleased to meet them in Samjiyon County where leader Kim Jong Il was born and which is very near to Mt. Paektu, a sacred mountain of the revolution where the Songun (army-first) revolution began and the Korean revolution took root.

He said he made a long journey, shelving all the state affairs, not only to show his love for the fighter pilots but also to implant the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu, deeper in the hearts of them who spent the Day of the Sun, the greatest national holiday, in snow-stormy Mt. Paektu area.

What is most precious for the fighter pilots is the revolutionary faith, he said, and went on: Showdown in the sky is that of idea and faith and the revolutionary faith and spirit is the basic factor decisive of victory in showdown in the sky where there is no room to step back.

It is the fixed resolution and will of the Workers' Party of Korea to defend the revolutionary traditions and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu, he stressed.

The Party entrusts the very clear and blue sky of the country entirely to the fighter pilots, he said, adding he would always stand by the heroic fighter pilots defending the country's blue sky.

He ardently called upon all of them to vigorously fight for the final victory in the building of a thriving socialist nation, cherishing deeper in mind the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu.

Then oath-taking speeches were made at the meeting.

The speakers made a firm resolution that the red goshawks of Kim Jong Un's guerilla army would carry through the important tasks set forth by the Supreme Commander in his historic speech and thus dash toward the targets, pointed by the Supreme Commander, before anyone else when an order is issued and win in the great war for national reunification.

A letter of pledge to the Supreme Commander was adopted at the meeting. The Supreme Commander had a photo session with members of the KPA fighter pilots' expedition of the revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu area in front of the statue of Kim Il Sung at the Samjiyon Grand Monument. 

PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG AND A FORMER SOVIET OFFICER

On March 1, 1946, a year after Korea’s liberation (August 15, 1945) from Japanese military occupation (1905-1945), a rally was held in the concourse in front of Pyongyang Railway Station to commemorate the 27^th anniversary of the March First Popular Uprising of the Korean people against Japan’s oppressive rule.

Seen on the platform were Kim Il Sung and Korea’s other leading officials and commanding officers of the Soviet troops stationed in the country. When Kim Il Sung was making a speech, a hand-grenade fell near the platform. It was thrown by terrorists on the payroll of US imperialism.

At the critical moment when the hand-grenade was to go off, a second lieutenant of the Soviet army smothered it with his body. It was Ya. T. Novichenko who was standing guard near the platform. In the explosion he lost his right hand, the chest and legs lacerated by splinters and the head covered with bruises. He was rushed to a hospital, where he underwent surgical operations.

Worrying that he must have shed much blood from the chopped wrist, Kim Il Sung occasionally acquainted himself with his medical treatment and sent efficacious medicines and tonics to him. Also he often sent officials to the hospital to inquire after his health.

Later Novichenko said to a journalist of his country in recollection of those days; “I thought on my sickbed if my action was really a distinguished merit. Could I, a Soviet officer and a communist, act otherwise at such a moment?” However, Kim Il Sung highly praised him as an excellent internationalist fighter and said that his was a rare act of heroism.

Because newly-liberated Korea had not yet instituted orders, it was impossible to confer him a decoration. Unhappy about this, Kim Il Sung sent his silver cigarette case to him as a gift when he returned home. Inscribed on the case was his autograph reading: “To March 1, 1946 Hero Novichenko, Kim Il Sung, Chairman of the Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea”

It was in May 1984 when the Korean leader and the Soviet officer met again. President Kim Il Sung dropped in at Novosibirsk Station in Siberia on his way to Moscow in an official visit to the Soviet Union leading a DPRK Party and state delegation.

At the station he had an emotion-filled reunion with Ya. T. Novichenko. Although scores of years had elapsed, he remembered the surname of the Soviet officer and told officials about his exploits from several years previously. Suggesting that he might be still alive, he took measures to discover his whereabouts. So historical records and the memoirs of Soviet army generals who had been in Korea shortly after its liberation were screened and many people were sent to various places to trace him. Finally he was found living in a remote rural village in Siberia, some 300 kilometres away from the seat of Novosibirsk.

That day President Kim Il Sung explained to those present there the internationalist deed Novichenko had performed back in Korea. Novichenko said to the President that he still remembered the close concern and solicitude he had bestowed on him when he was in hospital. Saying he was very pleased to see him again, the President asked after his health and family.

On hearing him answer that he was healthy and had six children and eleven grandchildren, the President invited him to visit the DPRK together with his wife and all his children and grandchildren.

Subsequently, Novichenko and his family visited the country almost every year. Whenever they came to his country, the President would take off time from his crammed schedule to meet them. Once he presented them with gold wrist watches inscribed with his autographed name.

He treated Novichenko’s family as his own, sometimes patting his grandchildren on the cheek or giving them confections. He was so friendly to them that the grandchildren would call him their grandfather and Novichenko address him as elder brother.

Ya.T. Novichenko, a Soviet citizen, was awarded the title of Labour Hero of the DPRK as well as the Order of National Flag 1^st Class and a gold medal (hammer and sickle). “If you visit my country, I will greet and treat you as my old comrade-in-arms, friend and saviour. I will love you forever.”

These words of the President will be etched in the minds of people for ever together with his ennobling sense of obligation to the former Soviet officer.

MIRROR IMAGE OF A CULTURED SOCIALIST NATION

The Masikryong Ski Resort gives a glimpse of the future of a cultured socialist nation Korea is striving to build. It will be no exaggeration to say that the country is now on the home straight in the race for building such a nation.

“Your eyes are not deceiving you. This is socialist north Korea,” said a CNN anchor a few years ago, televising live a nocturnal scene of the Kaeson Youth Park fashionably built in Pyongyang. Since then the Rungna People’s Recreation Ground, Ryugyong Health Complex, People’s Open-air Ice Rink, Munsu Water Park, Mirim Riding Club and many other world-class cultural resorts have been built in the country.

They were followed by the ski resort built on Masik Pass, whose name was derived from a legend that the pass is so rugged and stiff that even a horse had to have a rest while crossing it (ma means a horse and sik a rest in Korean). Its construction gave birth to another word representative of the times, the craze for skiing on Masik Pass.

The credit for all this goes to the supreme leader Kim Jong Un of the DPRK. In late May two years ago he visited the pass and said in the following vein: Skiing is a sport favoured by all the people, young and old, to say nothing of the athletes. If a ski resort is built here, a new craze for skiing will sweep across the country. He then pictured in his mind the days when the people would build up their bodies and enjoy the natural scenery.

True to his plan, the soldier-builders of the Korean People’s Army built the ski resort in the short span of a year to the wonder of the world.

Foreigners who have been to the resort say in admiration that it has excelled the world standard. Mimura Mitsuhiro from the Northeast Asian Economics Institute said, “This is a mirror image of a cultured socialist nation.”

CRAZE FOR SKIING ON MASIK PASS

             The craze for skiing on Masik Pass sweeps across the DPRK these days.

New Craze and New Scenery

Ever since the Masikryong Ski Resort was opened to the public, it has always seethed with holidaymakers. Nowadays, however, their number is sharply increasing. Bus and other traffic services are provided from Pyongyang and other major cities to Masik Pass. Boasting of modern architectural beauty blended well with the rugged mountains, the ski resort is crowded with people from all walks of life including young students.

What catches everyone’s eye first is the long stretches of ski runs which are brimming over with optimism and joy.

Young people are so brave as to ski down at breakneck speed from the top of steep silvery runs, and snowmobiles are rushing up from the foot to the peak of the pass, raising fine sprays of snow. Among them is seen a family on a snow sledge sliding down at high speed, giving out thrills of excitement and shrill laughs. All these present spectacular sight.

Skiers in colourful gears going up the mountain by chairlift look like “beautiful flowers” rising up to the blue sky. All the holidaymakers, regardless of age, sex and occupation, enjoy themselves to their heart’s content.

Here a fisherman from the east coast has a friendly chat with a lumberjack from the northern tip of the country and there a young farmer couple ski down for the third time. An elderly couple cheers up their grandchildren sledging.

Girls who are sensitive to the trend derive from ski gears an inspiration for the designs of their fashionable dress. Found there are newlyweds enjoying their honeymoon and schoolchildren competing with one another in skiing, nurturing their dream of being ski aces. At the snow and skating grounds, children are engrossed in training their skills. The winter campers of the Songdowon International Children’s Union Camp also come to the resort.

Though it is cold outside, people enjoy a bath in the indoor swimming pool of Masikryong Hotel. As a multilateral service system is established in it, the resort offers an impressive catering service to the visitors.

The mineral water gushing out of the pass is very popular for its good taste and abundant minerals good for health and other elements with medicinal effects. So the dishes of edible herbs treated with the water, a specialty of the pass, taste unique.

Coffee shops serve mocha, latte, cappuccino and other world-famous coffees. The night view of Masik Pass is also fantastic with its attractive snows cape, modern ski resort, fresh air, the dazzling illuminations and unceasing melodic songs adding much to its exquisite pastoralist.

KIM JONG UN GAVE FIELD GUIDANCE TO THE PYONGYANG WEAK-CURRENT MACHINE PLANT

Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Pyongyang Weak-current Machine Plant.

He looked round the room for the education in the revolutionary history. Seeing the newly displayed color photos of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, he said that the room has been arranged well. Every historical memento and material is precious revolutionary legacy to be handed down to posterity, he added.

He recalled that Kim Il Sung gave his first field guidance to the plant in October, 1955 and Kim Jong Il in September, 1967 and they paid attention to the plant and gave important instructions to it during their several visits to it, noting the foot prints left by them there precisely mean the history of its development.

He went round the products show room, the processing and assembling shops and other places to learn in detail about the development of new products and production there.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the workers of the plant are waging a vigorous drive to develop new products with an ambition to produce ultra-modern weak-current machines.

He underlined the need for the plant to channel efforts into developing new products and, at the same time, conducts an energetic drive for steadily boosting production and ensuring their precision, safety and practicability.

He spared time to watch a performance given by the itinerant art squad of the plant at the hall of culture. Noting that all numbers of the performance truthfully represented the party's policies and the love for the plant and the revolutionary and militant resolution of its workers to become standard-bearers and shock-brigade in carrying out the line and policies of the party, he stressed the performance helped deepen his trust in it.

He encouraged the workers of the plant, saying that there is no goal unattainable when they live and work in the Kunja-ri spirit, the most vivid expression of loyalty to the party and the revolution and noblest patriotism, and they can surely produce cutting-edge weak-current machines before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea if they work hard just as the workers of Kunja-ri did.

He had a photo session with the officials, scientists, technicians and workers of the plant. He was accompanied by Hong Yong Chil and Yun Tong Hyon. 

Kim Jong Un Inspects KPA Navy Unit 164

Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected KPA Navy Unit 164.

He was greeted by Senior Vice Admiral Ri Yong Ju, commander of the KPA Navy, Vice Admiral Ho Yong Chun, political commissar of the KPA Navy, and commanding officers of the unit.

He gave the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photo session with its seamen.

He went round the room for education in the revolutionary history and the room devoted to the unit's history. Seeing with keen interest the precious historic data, he recalled the undying feats of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the development of the unit which was personally organized by Kim Il Sung in May 1955.

He toured a monument to the field guidance of Kim Il Sung and high-speed transport boat No. 6251, which was examined by Kim Il Sung and whose test sailing was guided by Kim Jong Il.

Then he dropped in at the building of the unit command and gave important instructions for commanding and managing the unit. He set forth the tasks and ways for further building up the unit in keeping with the features of its combat duty and more thoroughly establishing the anti-Japanese guerrilla method of commanding and management.

He went round the library and servicepersons' hall of the unit.

It is needed to supply the must books to the library on a regular basis and organize writing impressions and discussion of books and oratorical meeting often for the seamen to regard the reading as part of their military service so that they can develop into many-sided persons with versatile knowledge, he said, adding: This is a shortcut to making the whole army politico-ideologically and morally stronger.

Stressing the need to run the servicepersons' hall in an effective way, he instructed the unit to concentrate efforts on the five-point education, set forth by the Party, and steadily conducts the class education, in particular.

The Supreme Commander looked round the room for general warship training.

He learnt in detail about the combat and political training, watching torpedo attack and other drills. And he clarified the main link in the whole chain that the unit should concentrate efforts on for its combat preparedness and the important matters arising in properly employing the Juche-based naval war tactics.

Noting that Generalissimo Kim Il Sung projected the all-round seaman movement decades ago, he said that various kinds of specialized training should be intensified among the seamen to prepare them as all-round seamen and death-defying corps on the sea.

He underlined the need for commanding officers to focus on having a deeper grasp of the abilities to organize and command naval battles and the art of operating warships under the actual war conditions.

He also went round barracks, education room and mess of the 1st company of the 5th flotilla under the unit to take warm care of seamen's living conditions.

Learning about the tree-planting campaign conducted by the unit this year, he gave instructions to better a nursery and intensify the campaign so as to turn the surroundings of the unit and its stationary area into a thick woodland and greenery.

He was satisfied to go round the unit, he said, expressing belief that the unit would bring about a new turn in its combat preparation and commanding and management.

Accompanying him was KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA.

Kim Jong Un Visits Machine Plant

    Pyongyang, April 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the machine plant managed by Jon Tong Ryol.

    In August last year when visiting the plant associated with the patriotic devotion of leader Kim Jong Il, he gave it tasks for consolidating its material and technological foundation, developing various cutting-edge machine products and making light aircraft.

    Going round the plant, he learnt in detail about the development and production of new products.

    He noted with pleasure that its workers made a marvelous sci-tech achievement with worldwide competitive power in the course of developing cutting-edge equipment and thus provided a solid springboard for rapid progress of the DPRK's machine-building industry.

    The plant has a very important mission and role to play, he said, stressing that it should push forward a drive to develop the country's machine-building industry onto a higher stage.

    To train talented persons is more important than to update equipment in a drive for modernizing the plant, he said, adding that deep attention should be paid to the work for building up the designing force and the ranks of technicians and skilled workers and providing the scientists and technicians with better working and living conditions.

    Then he watched the test flight of light airplanes produced at the plant.

    He learnt in detail about mechanism, performance, etc. of the newly-made light airplanes before giving an instruction to start the test flight.

    Watching their flight, he expressed his great satisfaction over the fact that the plant with a long history is producing not only military aircraft but also various types of civilian airplanes at will.

    And he got aboard one of the planes to personally conduct its take-off and landing test, saying: I have to try the airplane as it was produced by our working class. This will please our scientists, technicians and workers and encourage them to the dynamic work for attaining a higher goal.

    Noting that last year he gave an instruction to make light aircraft and sent samples, he praised the officials, scientists, technicians and workers of sectors concerned, the plant and other relevant industrial establishments for having successfully manufactured those planes whose all equipment and apparatuses are home-made. And he warmly asked officials to convey his greetings to them.

    He expressed great expectation and belief that the officials and workers of the plant would give a facelift to their factory as required by the new century, make a great leap forward in the production of advanced machines and thus creditably play a role of the vanguard and shock brigade in the building of a thriving nation.

    Accompanying him were Hwang Pyong So, O Kum Chol, Ri Pyong Chol, Jo Chun Ryong and Hong Yong Chil.