KIM JONG UN VISITS SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EXHIBITION HALL OF KPA

    Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Marshal 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 Scientific and Technological Exhibition Hall of the KPA. Looking round various inventions on display in the hall for a long time, he acquainted himself with the military scientific and technological successes made by the KPA recently.

After watching the latest technological equipment newly developed, he said that it is good to have chosen the matter arising in reality as a seed and learnt in detail about the introduction of equipment ensuring improved performance and better preservation and safety. Watching the equipment developed and manufactured to suit the actual conditions of the country, he said that they are badly required by the KPA for making combat preparations and bolstering up the fighting capability. He urged it not to rest content with the successes made in researches but make them pay off in reality.

He was pleased that impedimenta and equipment necessary for training and service were successfully made to suit physical constitution of service personnel and actual conditions of the country. He was satisfied to see batteries for long use. It is clear from the inventions that the KPA has worked hard to solve scientific and technological problems by its own efforts true to the party's intention, he said.

He repeatedly made a high appreciation of the shining successes made by service personnel, scientists, technicians and researchers in the relevant field in their scientific researches conducive to stepping up combat preparations and improving the soldiers' service and people's living standard in the past. He went round combat and technical equipment displayed in open-air exhibition ground. He set forth tasks to be implemented by the KPA to further develop military science and technology.
He underscored the need to successfully organize the 27th military scientific and technological exhibition of the KPA slated for this year. He expressed expectation and belief that the KPA would develop the nation's military science and technology on a higher stage true to the party's intention. He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Jong Nam, Ri Yong Gil and Yun Tong Hyon.