The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) oversaw the training of special operations units during a visit to a major training base, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Sunday.

At the special operations training base directly under the authority of the Operations Bureau of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, instructed the country's armed forces to get fully prepared in conformity with the trend of modern warfare, stressing what he called an iron truth: "Much more sweat in the peacetime training leads to less blood in the battlefield," said the report.

The DPRK leader laid out his plan for reorganizing the special operations forces and follow-up measures, the report added.

The training aimed to assess the physical and military capabilities of the combatants in the special operations units, it said.