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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 28 (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 company of KPA Unit 851. He was greeted on the spot by the commanding officers of the unit and the company.
    He learned about the company's performance of duty before watching its firepower training. He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in further increasing the combat capability of the company, greatly pleased to learn that all the servicepersons of the company have been trained as stalwart fighters.
    He said that it is the primary revolutionary task for the servicepersons to train well, noting that the servicepersons of the company could get excellent marks in live firing exercise as they have worked hard to implement the Party's drill-first policy.
    He dropped in at the room for commanding the fulfillment of the duty to learn in detail about the performance of the guard duty.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' service and living, walking round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a daily provision store, a washroom, a barn and other places of the company.
    He acquainted himself with all aspects of soldiers' life ranging from conditions for watching TV and the position of footlockers in the bedroom to the quality of water in the washroom and stock breeding.
    Seeing photographs of servicepersons of the company one by one, he was pleased that they clearly reflected every aspect of their worthwhile service. He repeatedly underscored the need to send more photographs of stalwart soldiers to their parents in their native places and alma maters.
    He highly praised the achievements made by the servicepersons of the company, greatly satisfied to learn that they are living full of revolutionary and militant spirit after building up well their revolutionary post as required by the slogan of the WPK "Let us train, study and live like the anti-Japanese guerrillas!"
    He gave them a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.