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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 23 (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 541. He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
    Kim Jong Il acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty and went round the room for the education in the revolutionary history and the room devoted to the unit's history, conducted by its commander.
    He highly appreciated the proud feats performed by the unit in the past, saying it is a powerful unit, a unit with strong combat capability as it not only greatly contributed to the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War but has displayed popular heroism in socialist construction and in the protection of the life and property of the people.
    Going round the servicemen's hall and other entertainment and educational facilities and seeing a variety of visual aids such as a newspaper display board, a wall paper, a billboard for news in brief about soldiers' service, he learned about how the ideological work is conducted among servicepersons.
    He familiarized himself with their training, going round a drill ground and a military lecture room.
    He underscored the need to build modern drill grounds and widely introduce latest apparatuses to training to suit the content of the program for training and its characteristics, noting that the People's Army should always organize any work with main emphasis on training and orientate and subordinate every aspect of the military and political work at any unit to successful training.
    Then he made rounds of a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom, a daily provision store, an outdoor resting place and other places. He learned in detail about every aspect of soldiers' life, asking them whether their bedrooms and mess hall are properly heated, they have firewood enough for wintering and whether their winter uniforms are thick enough to keep them warm.
    He spared time to watch an art performance given by the servicepersons of a company under the unit.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a photo session with them.