Guiding the joint striking drill conducted one May day in 2025 to raise the fighting efficiency of the units of the Korean People’s Army, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that it is the consistent policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea on building up the armed forces to preferentially intensify the qualitative superiority of the artillery forces with an unshakable viewpoint that strengthening the artillery immediately means strengthening the fighting efficiency of the army and the nation’s defence capability.