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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 13 (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 1549. He was greeted by the commanding officers of the unit on the spot.
    After acquainting himself with the performance of the unit's duty, he saw�@the soldiers under training at a military lecture room.
    Seeing them bent on the training, he advanced highly important tasks which�@would serve as guidelines in increasing the combat power of the unit,�@satisfied to learn that all the soldiers of the unit have grown to be�@one-match-for-a-hundred fighters equipped with high military technology and�@combat capabilities through strenuous training.
    It is the primary revolutionary task for the soldiers to train well, he�@said, stressing the need to always pay primary attention to the work to�@thoroughly implement the training program.
    Going round an education room, bedroom, mess, kitchen, daily provision�@store, washroom, outdoor resting place, barn and other places of the unit,�@he acquainted himself in detail with the service and living of the soldiers.
    After learning about preparations made by the unit for sideline work, he�@said that a new turn should be effected in this year's sideline production�@through good preparations and indicated the ways to do so one by one.
    He spared time to enjoy an art performance given by soldiers of the unit.
    He gave the unit apparatuses for entertainment as gifts.
    After enjoying the presentation, he met the performers. He had a warm�@conversation with them, learning in detail about their entertainment.
    All our soldiers are strong in faith and ideology as they are replete with�@the strong patriotic determination to readily devote their youth and life to�@defending the country, he said, adding: Our revolutionary cause is�@invincible as such a loyal strong army is firmly standing guard over the�@first line of the anti-imperialist military front.
    He had a photo session with the soldiers of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su and Hyon Chol Hae, and Ri�@Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first�@vice department director of its Central Committee