Posted on 04/13/2017 2:03:02 PM PDT by Gamecock
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, oversaw the KPA Tankmen’s Contest-2017.
He was greeted on the spot by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA; KPA Vice Marshal Ri Myong Su, chief of the General Staff of the KPA; Army Colonel General Ri Yong Gil, first deputy chief of the General Staff and director of the General Operations Bureau of the KPA; and Army Colonel General Yun Tong Hyon, vice-minister of the People’s Armed Forces.
The contest, which brought together a dozen of crews selected from large combined units, was held in such a way that each tank started in the order set by a draw and shot at moving and fixed targets as it drove along a 3.6-kilometre track with obstacles set up on eight lines. Total rankings were decided by putting together driving and shooting scores.
The Supreme Leader was briefed on the contest programme at the observation post before giving an order to start the competition.
The tanks rushed one after another to overcome different obstacles set up in simulation of shallows, pontoon bridge, hillside, anti-tank barricades, and hillside trenches and roads, while destroying targets with accuracy. Seeing the tanks clawing their way with force, the Supreme Leader said they are wonderful with their performance being excellent, adding that it is a sight to behold that they are storming over a steep barricade at the maximum speed as if they were flying over it. Indeed, tanks are symbolic of our People’s Army and they are its iron fist, he said with delight.
The Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division topped the rankings, followed by Large Combined Units 966 and 567 for the second and third places among others.
Kim Jong Un appreciated the contest and gave important instructions on stepping up combat preparedness of the tank units and subunits, stressing the need to focus on the training of overcoming barricades in cooperation with engineering subunits and to push ahead with the versatile crew movement.
The People’s Army should stoke up the flames of intensive training with an emphasis put on the Party’s five-point policy on bringing about a revolution in training which encapsulates its Juche-oriented military strategic and tactical ideas and the requirements of the modern warfare, he said.
He met with the participating tankmen to give a pep talk to them. And he had a photograph taken with them.
Ping worthy?
I was watching Nork TV last night and they were showing some paratroopers jumping from biplanes, that looked like something straight out of WW I.
Tanks will be worth less than scrap metal, when the shooting starts...........................
I would jump out of them as well..................
I suspect the Chinese moles in the NK government and military will quickly take out Kim and seize control.
I say enjoy em while you got em. The odds the tanks will be molten blobs of metal in the next few days are high.
He isn’t going to back down. He needs to be taken out.
Some of the cutting-edge technology he oversaw.
Yep, I see the Chinese organizing an “Operation Valkyrie”.
From what I have read in the past, just coming into the yard of a building where Fat Boy is, with so much as a knife gets you summarily executed.
It will have to be a swift, overwhelming and coordinated force to accomplish that...............
And those tank crews which missed in front their “Supreme Leader”?
Shot, I would expect.
The actual video should be interesting to see.
I wonder how much diesel he has squirreled away for those antiques. And how old their ammo is.
T-62’s, T-55’s, even some old T-34’s are still in use.
I’d like to see him riding up in the hatch like Dukakis did, but they probably can’t find a helmet big enough to fit his fat head.
Maybe they could cut a 55 gallon drum in half and he could wear that,
https://www.nknews.org/gallery/foreign-journalists-invited-to-see-kim-jong-un-tour-ryomyong-street/
where the journalist went yesterday.
I freaking loved that game.
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