Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea,
chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of
the Korean People's Army, guided a firing contest among women multiple launch
rocket system (MLRS) gunners selected from the large combined units of the KPA.
He organized this contest all of a sudden and guided it
on the spot in order to estimate and confirm the combat capability of women
gunners through the firing contest among MLRS batteries for eliminating enemy
helicopter-borne troops dropping on a landing area for an assault, and take
steps and raise a hotter wind of training in the entire army the way the
anti-Japanese guerillas did in Mt. Paektu.
He was briefed on the mode and method of the contest at
an observation post and issued an order to start the contest.
Watching women gunners rapidly taking firing positions,
he said the women gunners are doing really well though it would be hard for
them to pull MLRS on the ankle-deep sand. Saying that there is a gap between
men and women in the limits of their physical strength but there is no
difference between the men and women soldiers in their loyalty to the Party and
the revolution, the country and its people, he underlined the need to train the
women soldiers as indomitable fighters steadfast in their revolutionary spirit
to help them do their shares in the great war for national reunification.
When the order to fire was given, the women gunners fully
demonstrated their marksmanship of never missing targets they have cultivated
through a high-pitched movement for becoming crackshots.
Observing the contest, he stressed that commanding
officers should be well aware of why he organized the contest all of a sudden.
He underlined the need for them to prepare all gunners to be capable of hitting
targets whenever and wherever they are ordered to fire. To this end, the
training of artillery units should be conducted under the simulated conditions
of an actual battle, he emphasized.
The training irrelevant to an actual war is not necessary
no matter how frequently it is conducted and soldiers would have to pay dearly
in combat for such training, he said, adding ardent patriotism and loyalty of
the commanding officers and their warm love for soldiers are manifested in
remaining strict with soldiers in training.
He gave instructions to round off the combat readiness of
the KPA and bolster up its artillery force.
The women MLRS battery under the 9th Corps of the KPA
came first in the contest and prizes personally prepared by him were conveyed
to the winners.
He shook hands with the winners one by one and had a
photo taken with the participants of the contest.
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