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Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 3 (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 614. He first went to a wind-power station built at the unit.
    After being briefed on the station, he went round its exterior and interior to learn in detail about its construction and the production of electricity.
    He was greatly satisfied to learn that the servicepersons of the unit and scientists and technicians of Kim Chaek University of Technology successfully completed the construction of the wind-power station with a high generation capacity in a short span of time by devoting all their wisdom and energy. He highly praised their achievements.
    He stressed that the station should keep the production of electricity on a steady footing so as to greatly contribute to realizing the electrification at the unit and in the area it is stationed and set forth highly important tasks that would serve as guidelines in managing and operating the station.
    Guided by the commander of the unit, he made rounds of a room devoted to the history of the unit.
    He said all the units including this unit have produced a large number of excellent commanding officers, who became the backbone of the army. This proud success is a clear indication of the validity and great vitality of the Party's policy of training the whole army into a cadre army, he added.
    He had a photo session with the officers and men of the unit.
    The next leg of his inspection was a company under the unit.
    He went round an education room, a bedroom, a mess, a wash room, a daily provision store and other entertainment and supply service facilities to take deep care of the service and living of the soldiers.
    He learned in detail about all their living conditions ranging from the temperature of the bedroom and use of sanitary utensils and was much pleased to see excellent supply service facilities arranged to the convenience of the living of the soldiers.
    He expressed the conviction that the servicepersons of the company would firmly defend the forefront of the country and gave them a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photograph taken with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Rim Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae, Pak Jae Gyong and Member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and First Vice Department Director of the Party Central Committee Ri Yong Chol.