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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 12 (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 573 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment. He acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty before looking round the room devoted to the history of the unit, guided by its commander.
    Noting that the unit has performed really great feats, he called on its servicepersons to demonstrate its invincible might in the future, too, by carrying forward the glorious tradition of struggle.
    He learned about the cultural life of the servicepersons of the unit, walking round entertainment facilities including the servicepersons' hall.
    He dropped in at a military lecture room to see the training of servicepersons.
    He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in further increasing the unit's combat capability, greatly pleased to learn that the officers and men have acquired a high level of military technique and fighting ability.
    Noting that the master key to being a match for a hundred is to conduct training well, he underscored the need to pay primary attention to steadily intensifying the training to fully prepare the soldiers politically and ideologically and in military technique.
    He acquainted himself with the service and living of servicepersons, going round an education room, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom, a store, a freezing room, a combined processing room, a fish farm and other places of the unit.
    The servicepersons of the KPA are doing everything including the management of the unit and the organization of their living program as required by the new century to please every visitor, he said, adding this praiseworthy culture created by the KPA is a model in the era of Songun. He spared time to see an art performance given by servicepersons of a company of the unit.
    He gave servicepersons of the unit an automatic rifle as a gift and had a photo session with them, expressing expectation and conviction that they would firmly defend the socialist motherland with arms.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.