Experts from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s Ministry of People’s Security have completed a four-month training course for 98 trainees from mobile police and task force units across Vietnam.

The course, which ended in a closing ceremony held yesterday in the barracks of Task Force Battalion No. 2 in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 9, is part of a cooperation program between the DPRK Ministry of People’s Security and the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security.

During the course, which lasted from November 2012 to March 2013 under the coordination of the battalion, North Korean experts taught trainees in military knowledge and martial arts.

The trainees belong to the police units in 63 provinces and cities and a number of units under the Ministry of Public Security and the High Command of Mobile Police. Of the trainees, 17.4 percent has been classified as ‘good’, 62,2 percent as ‘fairy good’ and the rest as ‘qualified’.

After the closing ceremony, the trainees practiced firing with live ammunition, specifically K50 revolvers and AK assault rifles, and performed martial arts and Qigong.

This has been the second course conducted by North Korean experts since 2012, the battalion said.