Kim Jong-un, Party Central Military Commission Meeting... "Strengthening Nuclear War Deterrence"

"Significant Measures to Enhance Artillery Firepower"
Chairman Kim Jong Un's Public Activity After 22 Days

North Korean media reported on the 24th that North Korea held the 4th expanded meeting of the 7th Central Military Commission of the Party, presided over by Chairman Kim Jong Un. Personnel changes in the Party Central Military Commission were also made at this meeting. Choe Bu Il, Ri Byong Chol, Kim Su Gil, Pak Jong Chon, and Jong Kyong Taek (from left) are watching Chairman Kim Jong Un sign the document.

North Korea held the 4th Enlarged Meeting of the 7th Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party, chaired by Chairman Kim Jong Un, to discuss measures to strengthen nuclear war deterrence.

On the 24th, North Korea's state media, Korean Central News Agency, reported, "The 4th Enlarged Meeting of the 7th Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party was held," adding, "Comrade Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting." The Party Central Military Commission is the body that directs all military affairs in North Korea and oversees the entire national defense work. The exact date of the meeting was not disclosed.

The agency stated that at this meeting, "new policies were presented to further strengthen the country's nuclear war deterrence and to operate strategic forces in a highly dynamic state in accordance with the overall requirements for building and developing the national armed forces," but did not specify the details.

It also introduced that "significant measures were taken to decisively enhance the firepower strike capability of the Korean People's Army artillery."

Furthermore, it reported, "A series of biases appearing in the military-political activities of the armed forces were summarized and analyzed, and auxiliary issues to overcome them and bring about decisive improvements were discussed, along with issues to review and correct unreasonable organizational and structural defects in the composition of the armed forces. Core issues to rapidly develop self-defensive national defense capabilities and to organize and form new units to further complete military deterrence capabilities against threatening external forces were also discussed."

Kim Jong Un personally signed seven orders related to new military measures, including an order to enhance the responsibilities and roles of important military educational institutions through organizational restructuring, an order to reorganize the military command system in accordance with the mission and duties of security agencies, and an order to promote the military ranks of commanding officers, the agency reported.

Personnel changes were also made for the Party Central Military Commission and senior military officials at this meeting.

Ri Pyong Chol, a key figure in North Korea's missile development sector and Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party and Minister of the Military-Industrial Complex, was elected as Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Pak Jong Chon, Chief of the General Staff, was promoted to the rank of General.

The meeting was attended by members of the Workers' Party Central Military Commission, commanders of the Korean People's Army branches and corps, commanders of various armed forces agencies including the State Security Department, the Ministry of People's Security, and the Guard Command, as well as deputy directors of major departments of the Party Central Committee, the agency reported.

This enlarged meeting of the Party Central Military Commission chaired by Kim Jong Un was the first in six months since December 22 of last year. Counting by the report date, Kim Jong Un resumed public activities 22 days after his appearance at the completion ceremony of the fertilizer factory in Sunchon, South Pyongan Province, which was revealed on the 2nd.

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