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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Air Force Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 11 (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 Air Force Unit 854. He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the unit.
    He went round a room for the education in the revolutionary history and the room devoted to the history of the unit, guided by the commander of the unit.
    The unit has many historic relics of the revolution as it was given field guidance by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on several occasions.
    Seeing historic relics and mementoes associated with giant foot prints of the President, Kim Jong Il recollected with deep emotion the leadership exploits of the President associated with the history of the unit's development.
    The unit has produced many recipients of state orders including scores of heroes of the Republic.
    Kim Jong Il underscored the need to intensify the education of servicepersons through the room devoted to the history of the unit which vividly shows the history of its development.
    He dropped in at an operation commanding room of the unit to acquaint himself with the unit's performance of its duty.
    He was greatly satisfied to learn that the servicepersons of the unit are always following the imperialists' moves for aggression with heightened revolutionary vigilance and fully prepared to courageously repel any enemy's attack any time.
    He looked round new comprehensive welfare service facilities built by the unit.
    He praised the commanding officers for having done good for the servicepersons, greatly pleased with fact that the unit has built on its own a welfare service complex having all facilities including a bath house, a sauna and a barber's and making a good use of them.
    Then he learned about the unit's management and the politico-ideological education of the servicepersons, going round the servicemen's hall, a library, a mess hall and a daily provision store and an education room, a bedroom and a washroom of a company of the unit and other places.
    He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the unit has provided good living conditions to its servicepersons by sprucing up the compound of the barracks and building modern entertainment and logistic facilities and conducting the effective ideological education of the servicepersons in diverse forms and ways.
    All units of the KPA in the era of Songun have taken on fresh looks by focusing their efforts on increasing their combat capability and improving their management, he noted, adding that this signal turn is a precious fruition of a high revolutionary spirit, militancy and a strong sense of organization and discipline peculiar to the KPA.
    He had a photo session with the servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.