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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Naval Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 13 (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 Unit of the KPA Navy 153. He acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty before looking round the monument to the on-the-spot guidance given by President Kim Il Sung and the room devoted to the history of the unit, guided by its commander.
    The once unknown quiet fishing port has turned into a modern naval port over the last nearly three decades since the President gave field guidance to it and the unit has grown to be invincible ranks of matchless fighters, he said, adding that the revolutionary exploits performed by the President in building the Juche-based navy will last forever together with the country.
    After praising the unit for having built well the room devoted to its history, he went round the room for the education in trees bearing slogans built by the unit.
    Noting that the trees bearing slogans are the WPK's precious revolutionary treasure and pride which can not be bartered for anything, he underscored the need to conduct an effective education among the servicepersons and people through them and firmly arm them with the revolutionary idea of the WPK.
    He met lecturers Kim Yong Ok, Kim Kwan Bin and Kim Jung Gol who displayed the matchless self-sacrificing spirit in the act of protecting trees bearing slogans from the fire in 1998 and highly praised them for their feats.
    Seeing one by one the photographs of the 17 heroic soldiers who dedicated their lives to protecting those trees, he noted that they could throw themselves without hesitation into the raging flames to protect them at the cost of their lives because they were intensely loyal to the Party and leader.
    This admirable self-sacrificing spirit clearly shows how noble the ideological and moral state of the servicepersons of the KPA is in the era of Songun.
    He once again highly appreciated the shining feats performed by them, saying that those 17 heroes who protected those trees with their bodies till they breathed their last would be always remembered by the Korean people.
    Then he took care of the servicepersons' service and living, going round the servicemen's hall, an educational room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom, a non-staple food store and other places of the unit.
    He spared time to watch an art performance given by servicepersons of a company of the unit.
    He set forth tasks to be fulfilled to further increase the combat capability of the unit, greatly satisfied to learn that all the servicepersons of the unit have been prepared as the fighters who enshrined the spirit of devotedly defending the leader, the spirit of becoming human bullets and bombs and the spirit of blowing oneself up as their unshakable faith.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.