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Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 6 (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 272 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment. He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first vice department director of its Central Committee.
    He first went to a tree nursery of the unit to see a long-term plan to create forests and acquaint himself with tree planting.
    He highly praised the successes made by the unit, greatly pleased to learn that it has built a tree nursing base under a long-term plan and its servicepersons and their families have turned out as one in tree planting, thus turning the compound of the barracks and the area around it into a thick woodland in a few years.
    Then he climbed a mountain behind the barracks where tree planting was brisk and planted a tree together with servicepersons of the unit.
    After the tree planting he dropped in at an operation command room where he received a report on the situation from its commander and learned in detail about its performance of duty.
    He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in further increasing the unit's combat capability, greatly satisfied over the fact that its servicepersons are reliably standing guard over the defence line of the country with a noble patriotic determination to firmly defend the socialist motherland by force of arms.
    He watched its servicepersons under training.
    He highly praised all officers and men for their success in training, greatly pleased to learn that they have been trained as a-match-for-hundred officers and men fully capable of undertaking combat duties under any circumstances.
    He familiarized himself in detail with the political and ideological education among servicepersons, looking round a servicemen's hall and a room devoted to the history of the unit.
    He indicated tasks to further deepen and develop the political work in the army and ways to do so, highly praising the unit for fully applying the anti-Japanese guerrilla style of political work and conducting an effective ideological work among its servicepersons.
    Then he took deep care of the service and living of soldiers, going round an education room, bedroom, mess hall, subsidiary food store, outdoor resting place and other places.
    He highly appreciated the successes made by the officers and men of the unit, very pleased with the fact that they are assiduously managing the unit and tenaciously leading its economic life by learning from the anti-Japanese guerrillas' fighting traits and way of living.
    He gave servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.