North Korea Holds Artillery Shooting Competition for Mechanized Unit Battalion under Top Military Leader Pak Jong-chon's Command

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo In-ho] The North Korean military conducted artillery firing competition training under the leadership of Park Jeong-cheon, the top-ranking member of the Workers' Party Political Bureau Standing Committee.

Korean Central News Agency reported on the 7th, "Amidst a vigorous training fever among the People's Army units to open a new chapter in strengthening national defense power under the banner of self-defense, artillery firing competitions of artillery units (units at battalion level or below) under various mechanized units of the Korean People's Army were held on November 6."

The agency stated, "The training was conducted with the purpose of reviewing and evaluating the training patterns carried out by the mechanized units of the Korean People's Army to enhance mobile artillery combat capabilities, in strict adherence to the combat guidelines presented at the 1st Military Political Cadre Training Session by the Party Central Military Commission, and to further intensify the competitive training fever throughout the entire army."

The training was conducted by determining the locations of firepower positions and firing sequences through a lottery system. Combined unit commanders received tactical and firepower missions to support mechanized units with artillery firepower, then directly commanded the artillery firing to strike the targets.

Standing Committee Member Park Jeong-cheon supervised the training, and combined unit commanders including Rim Kwang-il, Chief of the General Staff of the People's Army, observed the exercise.

The artillery unit under the 604th Army Unit, which won first place in the training, was awarded the marksman badge, medal, and insignia. Park, the standing committee member, expressed great satisfaction with the competition results, according to the news agency.

While reporting on this artillery firing competition training, North Korea did not make any critical or threatening remarks toward South Korea or the United States. This is interpreted as an attempt to show that the exercise was a routine training similar to those conducted by other countries.

Meanwhile, it is rare for North Korea to publicly disclose general artillery firing training supervised by senior military officials without direct leadership from Kim Jong-un, the General Secretary of the Workers' Party.

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