According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 27th, Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Council, met with scientific and technical personnel from nuclear departments such as the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute on the 26th, and guided important consultation meetings on nuclear materials and nuclear weapons production.
Kim heard the report on the promotion of the capacity expansion plan for the 2025 nuclear material production sector, understood the current work and important production activities of the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute, and understood the scale and development prospects of the Nuclear Materials Production Department and the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute's new year's planning work.
Kim said, “Relying on the strength of the nuclear force as the core forining peace and safeguarding security, is our logic of absolute unchanging position.”Kim said that continuing to strengthen the country’s nuclear weapons response position is the top priority that North Korea must accomplish in terms of the security environment.
Kim Jong-un said that North Korea should constantly strengthen and update its nuclear technology, and the North Korean party and government will "give the highest priority to providing and supporting all possibilities and conditions for sustainable development" for the nuclear technology department. (Headquarters reporter Dong Haitao)