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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Sub-unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 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 DPRK, inspected a sub-unit of KPA unit 156. He acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty and looked round combat technical equipment. Then he watched an indoor training of soldiers in the technical lecture room.
    He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in further increasing the unit's combat capability, greatly satisfied to learn that the sub-unit has trained its servicepersons as a match-for-a-hundred fighters proficient in handling combat technical equipment and equipped with a high level of operation commanding ability and combat capability by building an effective technical lecture room and training hall and organizing intensive training.
    He took deep care of the service and living of soldiers, looking round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a washroom, a daily provision store, a vegetable field, an outdoor resting place and other places of the unit.
    He showed profound loving care for every detail of their living ranging from the heating of their bedrooms, processing of subsidiary food and the cultivation of vegetable to the quality of their photos.
    He spared time to see an art performance given by soldiers of a company of the sub-unit.
    He congratulated them on their successful performance, greatly pleased to see Private First Class Kang Chol Min and other soldiers of the company singing the songs of struggle, the songs of revolution, in single-hearted unity.
    He gave the servicepersons of the sub-unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first deputy department director of its Central Committee.