Kim Jong Un inspects important military industry companies and requests the advancement of military strength enhancement reform.

According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency on the 7th, Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission, inspected a comprehensive artillery production enterprise and a comprehensive machinery manufacturing enterprise in North Korea, and called for accelerating the major transformation of North Korea's military strengthening. The report stated that the comprehensive artillery production enterprise has completed its modernization and production increase tasks through technological and production revolutions, increasing its output to "four times the annual level and nearly twice the highest production annual level." Kim Jong-un stated that the productivity growth achieved through the upgrade of modern production structure, technological innovation, and the efforts of workers in North Korea's military industry sector has significant implications for achieving national defense development strategic goals and will play an important role in enhancing the basic combat capabilities of the North Korean armed forces. Kim Jong-un also stated that important military enterprises that are soon to be built and put into operation should learn from the modernization and reconstruction experience of this artillery production enterprise and accelerate the major transformation of North Korea's military strengthening. During the inspection of a comprehensive machinery manufacturing enterprise, Kim Jong-un called for the enterprise to focus on developing and producing more intelligent, high-speed, precision, and multifunctional machinery manufacturing equipment in order to enhance the production technology capabilities of the country's military industry sector and various sectors of the national economy.