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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 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 National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected KPA Unit 1404. He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and Member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and First Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Ri Yong Chol. He learned about the unit' s performance of duty before walking the compound of the barracks reminiscent of a park to acquaint himself with its management.
    Seeing the barracks surrounded by persimmon trees heavily laden with red persimmons, outdoor resting places and entertainment and amusement places, he was greatly satisfied to learn that the unit splendidly spruced up the compound of the barracks and it planted a variety of many fruit trees, in particular.
    He took deep care of the service and living of soldiers, going round an educational room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom, a daily provision store and entertainment and logistic facilities, No details of soldiers' life escaped him ranging from their watching TV, their use of publications, the temperature in their bedrooms to the amount of water in bathrooms and the preparation of food to their taste. He specified ways to improve them.
    He familiarized himself with the sideline job of the unit, looking round the barns crowded with fat ducks, geese, pigs and goats and the fish farm teeming with various species of fishes.
    Greatly pleased to learn that the unit has scrupulously organized the stockbreeding and the sideline job to provide its soldiers with good conditions for diet, he said that the KPA is a true pace-setter in self-reliance as it creates something from nothing.
    He highly praised the feats performed by the officers and men of the unit, saying that they have set an example in the management of the unit as befitting the soldiers in the Songun era.
    He spared time to watch an art performance given by soldiers of a company of the unit.
    The soldiers of the KPA have grown to be optimistic fighters and revolutionaries true to the Party's idea and possessed of the faith in the victory of the revolution, he said, adding that man-centred socialism in the DPRK is invincible as it has such a strong revolutionary army.
    He gave a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle to the soldiers of the unit as gifts before having a photo session with them.