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Kim Jong Il Inspects Command of KPA Combined Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, April 8 (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 KPA combined unit 837. The unit honored with several visits paid by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for field guidance has many revolutionary sites related to it.
    Going round a room dedicated to the education in the revolutionary history of the leaders and another room dedicated to the history of the unit, Kim Jong Il said that the unit was able to cover a road of shining victory and emerge a combined unit having a-match-for-a-hundred fighters under the wise guidance and meticulous care of the President.
    He underlined the need to preserve historical relics and materials associated with the giant footprints of the President, intensify the education in them to encourage all servicepersons to eternally glorify the great idea and cause of the President and his immortal feats with noble morality.
    Kim Jong Il acquainted himself with the unit's performance of its duty. He highly praised the commanding officers of the unit for their achievements, greatly pleased to learn that they have equipped themselves with the party's Juche-oriented military tactics, acquired admirable commanding ability and converted the defence theater into an impregnable fortress and performed remarkable feats in building socialism for the prosperity of the country.
    Highlighting the importance of the unit's duty, he advanced tasks that would serve as guidelines in increasing the unit's combat capacity. Then he watched soldiers under the combined unit in training.
    He spared time to meet Han Hye Ryon and other soldiers who distinguished themselves in the training and gave a warm pep-talk to them before congratulating them on their success in the drill.
    Drills produce a-match-for-a-hundred soldiers and combat and political training helps them become one-beats-a-hundred fighters, he said, calling on every soldier to become a hero in the Songun era through intensive training.
    He was very pleased to see an excellent applied art work vividly representing the whole course of the unit and praised servicepersons as all-round soldiers equipped with great combat capability and creative ingenuity.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' service and living, going round a servicepersons' hall, an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a wash-cum-bath house and subsidiary food store and a food processing room and other entertainment and service facilities.
    He gave servicepersons of the combined unit an automatic rifle as a gift before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.