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No 51/25 July 24, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Firing Practice Contest of Artillery Sub-units of Large Combined Units of KPA 2. Messages and Letters to Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un from Abroad 3. Credentials of Bulgarian Ambassador Accepted
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Firing Practice Contest of Artillery Sub-units of Large Combined Units of KPA Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A firing practice contest among artillery sub-units of large combined units of the Korean People's Army was conducted on July 23 amid the hot wind of training sweeping the entire army to further consolidate the militant might of the elite revolutionary army. 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, oversaw the artillery firing contest. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK. He was greeted on the spot by Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, and other commanding officers of the General Staff and military and political officers of the large combined units at all levels of the KPA. He heard a report on the preparations for the contest on the spot and emphasized the importance of the contest to be conducted according to the plan of the General Staff. The contest was conducted in the way of deciding ranks by examining the capability of each artillery sub-unit for performing the night march, combat deployment and firing attack on an unexpected enemy target in coastal regional environment and conditions in summer, making them master the combat methods in modern artillery warfare and judging the result of fulfiling the firing missions. The commanders of the large combined units commanded the firing of their sub-units. The artillery sub-units, which received the order to fire, fully displayed the capability that they had firmly developed to master the combat manual of our style and punish the enemy at one blow, thus hitting the suddenly-set marine targets in the set time. Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction over the contest that was conducted like an actual war and its result. This contest serves as a good occasion for showing the practical and fundamental changes taking place in the KPA's efforts to round off the combat readiness after the Seventh Conference of Training Officers of the KPA, he said, adding that this was a positive result of the outstanding political and ideological readiness of our service personnel supported by the scientific combat training regime and system. The combat capability of the core arm of our revolutionary armed forces should be highly perfect and matchless to lead and pull in the vanguard of the entire army the implementation of the Party's training-first policy, he said, stressing the need to continuously and rapidly develop our-style artillery tactics and combat methods in an innovative way in keeping with the harsh and acute environment of the daily-changing modern battlefields. He said that the courage, abilities and self-confidence with which to actively cope with any war and crisis are cultivated in the furnace of the training revolution transcending precedents and limits, and that the comprehensive and formidable combat strength capable of defeating any powerful enemy is the defenders' genuine heroism, toughness and feat deserving a gold-star medal. Reiterating that the surest war deterrent is the most thoroughgoing outlook on the arch enemy, he expressed expectation and conviction that the units at all levels of the whole army would more firmly establish the atmosphere of attaching importance to training and concentrate on actual war-like drills in response to the epochal build-up of the overall artillery forces so as to bolster up in every way the combat capability of the a-match-for-a-hundred invincible army capable of immediately coping with a war anytime and destroying the enemy in every battle without fail. Congratulating the combatants of the 2nd Battery of the 3rd Battalion of the 16th Artillery Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division of the 4th Corps of the KPA, who successfully attained all the goals set in the contest and won the contest with the highest score, he invited the battery as special guests to the celebrations of the 72nd anniversary of victory in the war as an award. All the artillerymen, who received his deep trust and love, hardened their iron will to remain infinitely faithful to the mission and duty of the defenders who guarantee the security of the country and the people most staunchly and most powerfully with the thoroughgoing spirit of defending the country and the revolution.
Messages and Letters to Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un from Abroad Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung. Messages and letters came from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the chairman of the FUNCINPEC Party of Cambodia, the chairman of the Central Council of the People Unity-"Kyrgys El" Republican Political Party, the chairman of the Motherland Party of Türkiye, the general secretary of the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran, the general chairman of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the chairman of the Socialist Party of Romania, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party of Romania, the chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the chairman of the National Salvation Front of Russia, the chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Switzerland, the chairman and the international secretary of the Communist Party in Sweden, the chairman and the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Slovak Communist Party, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party-21 of the Czech Republic, the chairman and the international secretary of the Finnish Communists' League, the general secretary and the international secretary of the Central Committee of the New Yugoslav Communist Party, the general secretary of the Movement for Peace and Socialism of Italy, the general secretary of the South West Africa People's Organizational Party of Namibia, the national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria, the general secretary of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, the national chairperson of the Socialist Democrats' Union of the DR Congo, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the DR Congo, the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico and the general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico. Kim Jong Un also received messages and letters from the director of the International Department of the Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia, the international secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of the People of Spain, a vice-chairperson of the Socialist Freedom Party of Egypt, the secretary for International Relations of the Brazilian Communist Party, the secretary for International Relations of the Brazilian Workers' Party, the co-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the director-general and a councilor of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, and other high-ranking officials of political, social and economic circles in China, Russia, Nepal, Myanmar, Mongolia, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, Palestine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Iran, India, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Austria, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Guinea, South Africa, Mali, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador, and the Juche idea study organizations, organizations for friendship and solidarity with the DPRK people and representatives of international bodies here. Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea received a message from the Central Committee of the People's Party of Cambodia.
Credentials of Bulgarian Ambassador Accepted Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The credentials of the Bulgarian ambassador to the DPRK, sent by President Rumen Radev of the Republic of Bulgaria to Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, has been accepted. Upon authorization of the President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, Choe Ryong Hae, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, received the credentials from Bulgarian Ambassador Andrey Tehov at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on July 23. Choe Ryong Hae had a talk with the ambassador in a friendly atmosphere. Present there were Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned and a member of the Bulgarian embassy.
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