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Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

KCNA

    Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Supreme commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission inspected KPA Unit 3993.
    He was accompanied by KPA generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
    Upon his arrival at the unit, he acquainted himself in detail with the unit's performance of the duty. He dropped in at a combined technical lecture room to see the training of serviceperson.
    Greatly pleased to see servicepersons of the unit undergoing an effective training by use of efficient training facilities they have built to raise the level of their military technique, he set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in increasing the unit's combat capability.
    He took warm care of the serviceperson's living looking round an education room, bedroom, mess hall and other places.
    He gave the servicepersons a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photo session with them, expressing the expectation and belief that they would firmly defend the Korean revolution and the socialist motherland, tightly holding the weapons of the revolution in their hands.
    The next leg of his inspection was a company of KPA Unit 138 honored with the title of Kum Song Lifeguard.
    He inspected a trench on a height where he gave a pep talk to servicemen performing their guard duty in a responsible manner. Then he took warm care of work and living of the servicemen, looking round an education room, bedroom, mess hall, washroom, kitchen, daily-provision store and other entertainment and logistic facilities of the company.
    He met with commanding officers of the company and learned about its preparations for sideline job for the next year.
    Noting that all the KPA units are keeping their posts neat and tidy and assiduously managing their economic life, he added that this clearly indicates the high level of regularization and standardization peculiar to the People's Army.
    He spared time to see a merry recreation party of officers and men of the company in the outdoor resting place.
    The servicepersons of the KPA always live full of optimism and joy wherever they are stationed, he said, adding that this is a manifestation of the great spiritual power of the KPA.
    He gave the servicepersons of the company a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifles as gifts and had a photograph taken with them.