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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 5 (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 2734 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment. He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the unit.
    After learning about the unit's performance of duty, he looked round military lecture rooms to watch servicepersons in training.
    He highly praised the feats performed by the unit, greatly satisfied to learn that it has put training on a regular basis and made it a part of its daily routine after contriving and manufacturing a lot of modern training apparatuses and thus prepared all its servicepersons as a-match-for-a hundred fighters equipped with high combat capability and technique.
    He set forth tasks for increasing the combat capability of the unit, underscoring the need to intensify the work to fully equip the servicepersons with the WPK's Juche-oriented war methods and military technique as a modern warfare is fought in reliance upon high military science and technology.
    He took deep care of the service and living of the soldiers, going round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom, a processing room and other places.
    He acquainted himself in detail with all aspects of their life ranging from watching TV, reading books and room heating to the supply of fancy items, quality of water inside the washroom and sports activities and taught ways to improve them one by one.
    He learned about the sideline farming this year, listening to the report of the commander of the unit on its organization.
    He saw new stacks of the harvested grain stalks. He was very pleased to see the success made in the sideline farming, saying that one more spectacular scenery was presented by units of the army.
    He highly appreciated the success made by the unit, greatly satisfied to le arn that it has meticulously organized the sideline job including stock breeding, cultivation of mushrooms and sideline farming to provide ample conditions for the diet of the soldiers.
    He had a photo session with the servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Kim Yong Chum, member of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and chief of the General Staff of the KPA, and KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.