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Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit 485

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 29 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected KPA Unit 485 on the forefront. After receiving a salute, he dropped in at the room of the unit's history to recollect with deep emotion the glorious path covered by the unit.
    The unit is a proud guard unit that registered signal military achievements in various battles during the last Fatherland Liberation War and in this course produced 30 heroes of the Republic and more than 16,000 other recipients of various orders.
    He said the officers and men of the unit should continue to take the lead in performing guard duties on the front and rounding off combat preparations, true to the glorious tradition of struggle of the unit.
    At the operation commanding room he learned about the performance of the unit's duty and expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the servicepersons of the unit are creditably performing their duties with a firm determination to devotedly protect the people's happiness and the man-centered socialist system in the DPRK.
    He then went to a servicepersons' hall, a mess hall, the compound of barracks and other places to learn in detail about the political work among the servicepersons, their training and supply service. He praised all the servicepersons for having prepared themselves as a-match-for-a-hundred combatants through strenuous ideological education and drill.
    He had a photo session with the servicepersons of the unit.
    The next leg of his inspection was a company of the unit.
    He looked round entertainment and logistic facilities to take warm care of the living of the soldiers with paternal love.
    He stressed the need to pay a particular attention to the living of the servicepersons who are devoting their all to the defence of the country on the forefront.
    He gave the servicepersons of the company a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photograph taken with them.
    He was accompanied by Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission and first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.