Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) -- 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, inspected strategic missile bases.

He was accompanied by Kim Jong Sik, first deputy department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.

He examined the readiness for action of the strategic deterrent directly related with the security of the country, including the functions and capabilities of the elements of launch-related facilities in the missile bases and the combat duty of strategic missiles.

He appreciated the services of the missile soldiers in the strategic missile bases for fulfilling the sacred duty they have assumed before the country and the people, keeping themselves always on alert on combat duty as required by the prevailing situation.

Noting that the strategic missile force is the core force playing a pivotal role in the country’s war deterrent, he stressed that it is an important principle of the defence building strategy consistently maintained by the WPK to technically modernize the overall armed forces by giving priority to the strategic missile force in the future, too.

As I have stressed on several occasions recently, the U.S. strategic nuclear means pose an ever-increasing threat to the security environment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the prospective threats urgently demand that the DPRK bolster up its war deterrent definitely and take a thoroughgoing and strict counteraction posture of its nuclear forces, he said.

He stressed the need to further modernize and fortify the strategic missile bases and ensure that all of them make every effort to maintain a thoroughgoing counteraction posture so as to promptly deal a strategic counterblow to the enemy at any time and in different circumstances. -0-