Military Hardware Exhibition Defence Development-2025 Opens

Military Hardware Exhibition Defence

Development-2025 Opens

Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) — The Workers' Party of Korea has firmly
ensured the dignity and eternal prosperity of the DPRK and magnificently put
its reputation and prestige on the highest level in the world by bolstering up in
every way the most powerful self-defence capacity in the course of
dynamically leading the country and the people to great victory and glory
under the uplifted banner of independence for 80 years. It serves as an
extraordinary feat and immortal honor that will shine forever along with the
history of the Juche revolution.
Giving the unique tremendous vitality and driving power to the course of our
revolution pioneered with arms, our Party is imposingly building and steadily
increasing the invincible military power, the powerful eruption of the DPRK's
courageous spirit and self-respect that no one can resist and demonstration of
most righteous strength, with its transparent faith and through the resolute
struggle.
The military hardware exhibition Defence Development-2025 opened with
splendour in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, on Oct. 4, demonstrating
the development of the national defence capabilities accelerated beyond
precedent and limit thanks to the matchless determination and outstanding
leadership of the great Party Central Committee to surely build an eternally
prospering socialist power, putting forward the self-reliant defence as the
mainstay for defending and developing the revolution.
The venue of the exhibition opened in celebration of the 80th founding
anniversary of the WPK is full of latest defence assets, an ensemble of the
Juche-oriented defence sci-tech strength, including ultra-modern weapon
systems developed into the pivotal military hardware of our armed forces in
line with the Party's grandiose strategy for the development of national
defence.
The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up to greet the head of
state.
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,

arrived at the venue of the opening ceremony of the military hardware
exhibition Defence Development-2025.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un reviewed the guard of honor of the
KPA and the glorious colours of the three services.
Kim Jong Un took the platform together with members of the Presidium of
the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee and leading officials in the
fields of defence science and munitions industry.
All the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers, looking up to Kim Jong
Un, the supreme representative of the mightiness and dignity of Juche Korea
and the banner of all victories and glory, and paid the highest tribute to him.
Attending the opening ceremony were members of the central leadership
organ of the Party including leading officials of the Party, government and
armed forces organs, officials of the Party Central Committee, major
commanding officers of all military and political organs of the Korean People’s
Army, meritorious officials, workers, scientists and technicians in the field of
munitions industry, leading officials of ministries and national agencies,
teaching staff and students of military education institutions.
Jo Chun Ryong, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made an opening address.
Expressing belief that the exhibition, which introduces the latest level of the
transformative growth of the DPRK's defence capabilities and displays the
entities of strength associated with the soul of resolute self-respect and ideal
of Koreans, would enable visitors to have new experience as members of the
powerful state and inspire them to win a greater victory, the speaker declared
the exhibition open.
The DPRK national anthem was played.
Kim Jong Un delivered a significant commemorative speech.
He said that the exhibition features the recent results of the important projects
that we have pressed on with in order to put the structure of the DPRK’s
military capabilities, with its nuclear deterrent as the backbone, on an
increasingly modern, advanced footing.
Since the initial days of its founding our Party has consistently prioritized the
Juche-oriented defence industry, laying the groundwork for its independent

development and setting one ambitious goal after another for its steady
growth, he noted, adding that recently, in less than one year, this industry has
achieved notable successes again, and he is sure that making public those
successes for our people to see constitutes the highest praise for our Party’s
80-year-long history.
He noted that our Party was born with the absolute mission of taking full
responsibility for the destiny of the people, so it is a natural duty of the Party
and its unique mode of activity to direct its main efforts to building the most
powerful defence industry in the world and developing it without let-up so that
it can protect the dignity and security of the nation, defend the rights and
interests of the people and secure their future.
Referring to the proud history of the development of the munitions industry
which started with the founding of the Party and has made a long journey
flushed with victories under the guidance of the Party, he noted:
In recent years, military hardware capable of actively and effectively coping
with the changing aspects of modern warfare has been newly developed or
upgraded, and AI technology and other latest sci-tech findings have been
widely introduced, with the result that the feasibility of their application not
only to the present battlefield but also to the future one has been confirmed in
view of the capability of fighting a war. This is an important feature of the
development of our style of defence technology.
I think that everyone present here can clearly see that our defence industry is
now focusing on continuous upgrading and making a leap forward in order to
protect the security environment of our state; it is doing so by relying on its
self-supporting foundations, through a unique course of development and by
highly ingenious methods of development.
This shows that we can review the work of the eighth-term Party Central
Committee with pride in having attained its goals by fulfilling its ennobling
mission and responsibility for the state and the people.
Noting that the security environment and instability we are in at present never
allow us to feel relieved or complacent even for a moment in bolstering up the
national defence capabilities, he analyzed the U.S. real aim of arms buildup
which poses a real and serious threat to the security of the DPRK and the
regional countries.

He stressed that the DPRK will surely take additional military measures to
counter it and if the U.S. persists in the dangerous arms buildup in blatant
disregard of the regional states' security concern, the developments will
further propel the DPRK to take relevant military and technical measures
aimed at removing the new threats and maintaining the balance of power.
Saying that everyone will soon know the new goals to be set forth for the
defence technology sector and the aspect of its development at the next
stage, he affirmed that our powerful assets for national defence capability will
develop more rapidly without a moment of delay, and the cause of the WPK
for strengthening the war deterrent for self-defence without let-up will continue
to follow the glorious road of victory.
The participants responded with enthusiastic applause to the speech of Kim
Jong Un who solemnly clarified the iron-willed declaration of the WPK which
would more dynamically lead the tremendous development of the national
defence capability and the great leap forward in building a powerful and
modernized army for the everlasting victory and prosperity of the DPRK
founded in reflection of the general will of all its people.
Kim Jong Un looked round the venue of the exhibition together with leading
officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs.
He said that he took great pride in covering the responsible and glorious road
before the country and the rising generations, witnessing the tremendous
defence capabilities achieved with warm heart and passion at an important
moment of reviewing the 80-year-long history of the WPK's building and
visualizing the journey of creation and change to be more resolutely made by
the WPK.
He stressed that the remarkable progress of the self-supporting defence
industry and the rapidly expanding sphere of modern defence science and
technology are the strength and the mettle of the DPRK achieved by our great
people who have defended the Party's line of self-defence with
unprecedented toughness and absolute support and encouragement despite
the trials and hardships that no one in the world has ever experienced.
Looking round the venue of the exhibition, the participants were struck with
admiration from the beginning to the end at the entities of our defence
capabilities, another development made just in a year.

The military hardware exhibition Defence Development-2025 which opened to
add excitement and joy to the whole country ahead of the auspicious 80th
founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea is a significant occasion
that heralds the changes of our armed forces to be stronger along with the
eye-opening advance and development of the revolution in the national
defence industry in the new era led by the great Party Central Committee. -0-