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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 26 (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 916. He was saluted on the spot by the commanding officers of the unit.
    He acquainted himself with the performance of the unit's duty.
    He dropped in at the room devoted to the unit's history, conducted by the commander of the unit. Seeing the records showing the glorious path covered by the unit, he stressed that the unit should lead all the servicepersons to uphold and glorify its fighting tradition. Going round the servicepersons' hall, a military lecture room and a political lecture room, he got familiar in detail with the study of military technology and political and ideological education among the servicepersons.
    He highly praised the successes made by the officers and men of the unit, greatly pleased to see them trained as one-match-for-a-hundred fighters capable of wiping out any formidable enemy through intensive training.
    It is very good to train all soldiers as fighters strong in ideology and faith, he said, adding that the trait of giving importance to ideology is a peculiar feature and tradition of the KPA which has won one victory after another, weathering out tempest of the revolution, with the strength of idea for the last 70 odd year.
    He advanced highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines in increasing the combat capacity of the unit in every way, greatly satisfied with the great successes the commanding officers and men of the unit have achieved through the vigorous struggle to thoroughly implement the WPK's self-defensive military line.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' service and living, going round an education room, a library, a bedroom, a mess hall, a washroom, a subsidiary food store, an outdoor resting place, a fish farm and other places of the unit.
    He spared time to appreciate an art performance given by soldiers of a company under the unit.
    He had a photo session with servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by Vice Marshal Kim Yong Chun, chief of the KPA General Staff and member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, and KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.