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Kim Jong Il Calls for Intensifying Combat Training in KPA

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 27 (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 DPRK, inspected a sub-unit of KPA unit 347 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment. He was saluted by commanding officers of the unit and the sub-unit on the spot.
    He acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty before watching the training of servicepersons.
    Then he set forth the tasks which would serve as guidelines in further increasing the combat capability of the unit, satisfied to learn that all the commanding officers and men of the unit have been trained as a-match-for-a-hundred fighters through successful training.
    The unit has set an example in the live firing exercise to be followed by the whole army by paying primary attention to the training in the past, he said, adding that to intensify the combat training is a basic guarantee for bolstering the combat capability of any unit.
    Learning about how servicepersons are handling weapons, he said that the victory of the cause of socialism, the destiny of the Songun revolution, hinges on the weapons, the precious legacy of the revolution as they are associated with the blood and soul of the anti-Japanese forerunners and bequeathed to them generation after generation. He stressed the need for the soldiers to prize and handle the arms of the revolution like the apples of their eyes.
    Looking at the mountain ranges around the barracks overgrown with various species of trees, he familiarized himself with the tree planting. He highly appreciated patriotism displayed by the servicepersons, praising the unit for having created the forests covering scores of hectares in recent years.
    Then he took deep care of the military service and living of soldiers, going round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, wash-cum-bath-house, non-staple food store and other entertainment and logistic facilities.
    Greatly pleased to learn that the unit has successfully built all the logistic facilities and provided the soldiers with abundant diet by effectively doing the sideline job, he said that such praiseworthy success is the fruition of the concerted persevering efforts made by the commanding officers and men of the unit.
    The soldiers of the KPA are successfully carrying out their work even after proceeding to the society as they are not only training body and mind in a revolutionary manner but also learning every aspect of their life in the days of their military service, he noted, adding that the period they have spent as soldiers can be likened to a course of a revolutionary university.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts and posed for a photograph with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.