According to KCNA news, the General Secretary of the DPRK Labour Party and State Chairman Kim Jong-un visited the weapons and equipment exhibition "Development of National Defense 2025" on the 5th, and boarded the Korean People's Army Naval destroyer "Trai Qian".
previous reports
According to a previous report by the Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong-un attended the launching ceremony of a new generation of multi-purpose attack destroyers held at Nanpu Shipyard on April 25th. This 5,000-ton new multi-purpose destroyer was named "Cui Xian" class, and the first ship of this type launched on the same day was named Choe Hyon.
Kim Jong-un said at the waterfall ceremony that in order to safeguard sovereignty and national interests, the North Korean Navy's activity waters cannot only stay in the territorial sea, but must extend to the far ocean.The new destroyer's waterfall marks the first step of the North Korean Navy's true transformation upgrade, becoming the first "signal bomb" for the Navy to be strengthened, while the nuclear-powered submarine construction project is the second "signal bomb".
According to the Korean Central News Agency, from April 28 to 29, local time, North Korea's new destroyer Choe Hyon conducted a number of weapons tests.
According to reports, on April 28, the DPRK conducted test launches of supersonic cruise missiles, strategic cruise missiles, air defense missiles and 127 mm ship-borne automatic gun. On April 29, it conducted test launches of ship-to-ship tactical guided weapons and various ship-borne automatic machine guns, smoke screens and electronic interference guns.
According to the report, the secretary-general of the North Korean Labour Party and State Chairman Kim Jong-un watched the first test with the missile general administration, the Academy of Defense Sciences, the detection and electronic warfare general administration and the shipyard in South Korea.
Kim Jong-un highly appreciated the Korean-style naval firepower system, saying it was "effectively combined with powerful strike means such as supersonic cruise missiles, strategic cruise missiles and tactical ballistic missiles and ship conventional defense means."
Kim also said, "It is important to establish a proactive offensive defense system on the basis of strong attack capabilities. The adoption of a new generation of high-tech technologies to continuously improve the level of equipment of attack and defense compound systems, and to multi-purpose and multi-purpose shipyards at a higher level, is a major issue facing our shipyard industry."
Source: China News Network integrated from central view news client, previous report