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Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 27 (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 a sub-unit of KPA Unit 979 honored with the title of Kum Song Lifeguard. He acquainted himself with the sub-unit's performance of duty before watching the training of its soldiers.
    He set forth tasks which would serve as guidelines in increasing the combat capability of the sub-unit, greatly satisfied to see the soldiers trained as one-match-for-a hundred fighters.
    He highly praised the servicemen of the sub-unit for sweating with loyalty to defend the motherland, noting that they have prepared themselves as matchless fighters capable of defeating any formidable enemy at one blow as they have devoted themselves to training in their uniforms wet with sweat to thoroughly fulfill their training programme.
    Saying it is very gratifying to see the servicemen living and struggling in a revolutionary and militant manner under the slogan "Let all of us learn from Heroes Ri Su Bok and Kim Kwang Chol to become heroes of the army in the Songun era!", he called on all of them to perform shining feats every moment of their service and thus become heroes in the new century.
    Then he took deep care of servicemen's living, looking round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom, a daily provision store, an outdoor resting place and other entertainment and logistic facilities.
    Greatly satisfied to learn that the unit has realized electrification on a high level with the electricity produced there and all its entertainment and logistic facilities have been built well to the convenience of the soldiers, he underscored the need for all the units of the KPA to realize electrification at an early date to provide the soldiers with highly civilized and best living conditions.
    He spared time to appreciate an art performance given by servicepersons of a company of the sub-unit.
    He gave the servicepersons of the sub-unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photo session with them.
    The next leg of his inspection was a power station built by KPA Unit 966.
    He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the servicepersons of the unit have completed the gigantic nature-harnessing project by their own efforts by fully displaying the revolutionary soldier spirit, saying that the station is an edifice of eternal value as it was designed well on the principle of profitability and built most qualitatively.
    Seeing photographs showing the heroic struggle of the soldier-builders, he said the KPA servicemen are taking the lead also in the sacred drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation and this is the noble patriotic fighting spirit which can be displayed only by the KPA, the guardian of the country and the people.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and Ri Yong Chol, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.