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On May 4, 2025, the North Korean KCNA news Agency reported that the Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the DPRK, respected Comrade Kim Jong-un, "managed the affairs of the leading tank factory on the spot" (apparently referring to the Kuson Tank Factory in Pyeongbuk Province).
The latest modification of the North Korean Cheonma-2 tank (천마-2호), which is also known by the Western designation M-2020
Pyongyang, May 4. KCNA/- Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, respected Comrade Kim Jong-un, supervised the affairs of the leading tank-building plant on the spot.
He was accompanied by Secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK Cho Chun Ryong, First Deputy head of the department of the Central Committee of the WPK Kim Jong Sik and other senior personnel of the Central Committee of the party, President of the National Defense Academy Kim Yong Hwan.
Senior employees of the company met Comrade Kim Jong-un at the place.
Visiting the factory, Comrade Kim Jong-un got acquainted in detail with the production, modernization and fulfillment of tasks related to the study of key tank technologies.
Specialists of the National Defense Academy, workers and engineers of the tank-building plant fought as one for the fulfillment of the task outlined at the VIII Party Congress - to set the main goal of the military industry to manufacture smart, high-precision and high-power weapons, to focus research, development and production on this. As a result, they are achieving significant development and success in developing tanks and armored vehicles of our type, increasing their combat characteristics.
Comrade Kim Jong-un highly appreciated the fact that, thanks to the role of the Central Committee of the Party's instructor group and under the faithful professional guidance of the National Defense Academy, prospects for further development in the field of the tank industry had opened up, and in particular, the idea and course of the Central Military Committee of the Party to improve key technologies of the main tank were being implemented in the form of continuous success in development and production.
The replacement of the armored vehicles of our ground forces of the last century with the latest tanks and armored vehicles, he stressed, is the most important issue in the construction of the armed forces and the modernization of the ground forces.
Comrade Kim Jong-un said with delight: in the field of the tank industry, we have updated the design of the tank structure of our sample and the composition of the firing system, improved the convenience of the tank crew, confirmed the scientific and reliability of the heavy-duty engine project, and thereby created a reliable guarantee of mass production.
In particular, the development of a monoblock power transmission has improved the running and other launch characteristics of the tank. The innovative update of the latest active protection complex, passive protection equipment and electronic warfare complex indicates great progress in the development of key tank technologies of our sample. The achievements of scientists and engineers are highly appreciated.
Nowadays, when subjective and objective conditions have changed, it is necessary to determine the military function and role of the tank in modern warfare, and the direction of its development. First of all, it is necessary to reconsider the view of the tank design, otherwise it is impossible to properly build armored vehicles. Further, Comrade Kim Jong-un highlighted the main direction of tank modernization, tasks and ways to implement it.
Creating production capacities for state-of-the-art large tanks and self-propelled artillery installations by accelerating the modernization of this military plant and related enterprises, updating the armored vehicles systems of our armed forces as a whole in the shortest possible time is an important task for the implementation of the grandiose plan and strategic intention of the Central Committee of the Party to achieve the second fundamental upgrade of armored vehicles.
I express my support, in particular, for the plans to modernize all the production processes of this plant, which will be submitted for consideration as the main issues.
In conclusion, Comrade Kim Jong-un stressed: the plant, which occupies a leading place in the development of tanks and armored vehicles, must tirelessly make a technical shift and increase production, pay due attention to the progressive improvement of the working environment and production, and thus be a model in creating a new century culture in the military industry.
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600-mm MLRS combat vehicles, known by the Western designation KN-25, in a tracked chassis variant.
