Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Special Operation Training Base under General Staff of KPA and Learns about Training of Soldiers

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits
Special Operation Training Base under
General Staff of KPA and Learns about

Training of Soldiers

Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) — 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, visited the special operation training base directly
under the authority of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army and
learned about the training of the sniper sub-unit and special operation sub-unit
on August 27.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Chun
Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first deputy
department director of the WPK Central Committee, and other leading officials
of the WPK Central Committee.
He was greeted on the spot by No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence
of the DPRK, and Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the Korean
People's Army.
He met snipers and soldiers of the special operations unit organized for
carrying out special duties at the training base and learned about the military
equipment of the sub-units and their training.
He acquainted himself with the new-type sniper rifle being produced and
supplied to the units.
He appreciated the high-precision long-range sniping character and
superiority of the new-type sniper rifle designed and developed by the DPRK
Academy of Defence Science this year in our own way to improve the
ergonomic efficiency of the weapon and the tactical performance of snipers,
and expressed satisfaction over the fact that the units were armed with the
sniping weapon of new generation.
Saying that the sniper forces have a very important duty in the combat ability
composition of the units, he noted that the sniper is a specially selected
soldier ready to conduct independent and proactive military actions and like a
hunter killing enemy soldiers with the marksmanship worthy of a crack shot in
the battlefield. He added that it is an important task for building up our armed

forces to drastically strengthen the special operations forces and specialized
sniper forces in the future.
He said that the Central Military Commission of the WPK would examine the
issue of organizing the Central Sniper Training Center under the General Staff
in the future.
Saying that concentration and high observation are essential qualities for
snipers, he mentioned that they should be trained for discerning different
surroundings and getting used to the environment to improve their
concentration, endurance and observation, and that they should establish a
correct training methodology for selecting sniping object, concealing and
moving, selecting and building shooting platform, acquiring the method of
observation with various equipment and precision long-range shooting
method and learning the secret of adjusted fire in attack and defence between
the teams of snipers and between sub-units, and intensify scientific
specialized training to raise the capability for an actual war.
He instructed the Ministry of National Defence to produce quality camouflaged
uniform to