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No 32/25 May 02, 2025
1. Combat Application Test of Weapon Systems of Multi-mission Destroyer Choe Hyon Begins 2. Citizens Move into New Flats in Hwasong Area of DPRK
Combat Application Test of Weapon Systems of Multi-mission Destroyer Choe Hyon Begins Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The combat application test of the weapon systems of the multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon began. The DPRK Missile Administration, the Academy of Defence Sciences and the Detection and Electronic Warfare Administration launched a performance and combat application test of the weapon systems mounted on the destroyer Choe Hyon. The first test of the weapon systems of the destroyer was conducted on April 28 and 29. The test-fire of supersonic cruise missile, strategic cruise missile, anti-aircraft missile and 127mm shipboard automatic gun took place on April 28. 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, saw the first test-fire together with leading officials of the Missile Administration, the Academy of Defence Sciences, the Detection and Electronic Warfare Administration and the Nampho Shipyard. He got on the destroyer that would undergo the scheduled weapon systems test, and acquainted himself in detail with the phased schedule and contents of the test from members of the weapon system examination group, before seeing the first test-fire. The power of the 127mm shipboard automatic gun attracted close attention of the leading officials. Highly appreciating that the combat application test of shipboard weapon systems has been prepared with foresight and started promptly, Kim Jong Un underscored the need to perfect the warship's weapon systems for integrated operation in a short span of time by strictly conducting the test as planned. He highly appreciated once again, saying that very wonderful is the shipboard firepower system of the Korean style, which effectively combined the most powerful strike means including supersonic cruise missile, strategic cruise missile and tactical ballistic missile with the conventional defensive means of the warship. Noting that a destroyer discharging the conventional mission of merely repulsing the enemy invading the territorial waters cannot be called a reliable means of maritime defence, Kim Jong Un said that it is important to establish a proactive and aggressive defence system on the premise of powerful attack capability and that it is a major task facing the field of the warship-building industry of the DPRK to steadily raise the level of equipment of offensive and defensive complex system, into which high-tech means of a new generation are introduced, and thus put the multi-mission and multi-purpose performance of warship on a higher level. Saying that it is high time to make a responsible option for accelerating the nuclearization of the Navy in order to defend the state and its maritime sovereignty from the existing and prospective threats, he set forth tasks to this end. On April 29, the test-fire of anti-ship tactical guided weapon, various kinds of shipboard automatic guns and smoke and electronic jamming guns took place.
Citizens Move into New Flats in Hwasong Area of DPRK Pyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang has greeted another "season of moving into new flats" in the spring of April. The new super-high-rise and high-rise apartment houses and various neighbourhood-serving networks boasting of their appearances and majestic figures as a splendid urban quarter are in harmony in a particular way. This large architectural group is seething with people moving into their new flats every day. Trucks carrying household goods are arriving at different parts of the new street amid the joy and songs. The owners of the new houses were deeply moved to receive the licenses for using houses and the builders extended warm congratulations, sharing the joy. Such happy images can be only witnessed in the fairyland of the great socialist family being brought into full bloom day by day in the era of the Workers' Party. The vast Hwasong area reverberated with the cheers and excited voices of the people enjoying at their windows the beautiful scene of Pyongyang where a new era of prosperity and cultural efflorescence is being ushered in. "The new and wonderful street in the Hwasong area is a pride of our Pyongyang." "I admired the dwelling houses in Hwasong Street and Rimhung Street, but I can feel from here the magnificence of our Pyongyang which is developing beyond recognition every year and seem to see the future of a prosperous and powerful country." The people's laughter is growing louder day by day with the beautiful spring season when all kinds of flowers are in full bloom. This laughter has turned into all the people's hurrah for the Workers' Party and socialism, reverberating across the country. |
