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Kim Jong Il Inspects Sub-Unit of KPA Unit

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

   Pyongyang, September 2 (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 a sub-unit of KPA Unit 292. He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the unit and the sub-unit. He acquainted himself with the unit's performance of duty before going round combat technical apparatuses and watching the training of soldiers.
    He laid down tasks to be fulfilled to increase the combat capability of the unit, greatly satisfied to learn that the soldiers of the sub-unit are prizing and handling weapons of revolution with good care like the apples of their eyes and undergoing intensive training on a scientific basis in order to have a good command of them. Such shining achievements could be made by the unit because its servicepersons have used their brains and worked hard to successfully implement its training program, he said, adding that the basic guarantee for bolstering the combat power is to intensify the combat training.
    Seeing the majestic appearance of the sub-unit as a regular force, he said that the voluntary iron discipline is the essential characteristic feature of a revolutionary army and an important guarantee for increasing the combat capability. He stressed the need to steadily push forward the work to thoroughly establish the revolutionary military discipline.
    Going round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a wash-cum-bathhouse, a non-staple food store and other places, he learned in detail about the service and living of the soldiers.
    Looking at their sideline fields where a variety of crops have grown so rich that furrows are hardly to be seen, he was very pleased to know that the commanding officers and men have worked hard together to bring a bumper harvest. He specified ways of boosting the yield in the sideline farming.
    He stressed the need to positively develop the sideline economy so as to provide the soldiers with better living conditions.
    After receiving a report from the commander of the unit that the soldiers of the sub-unit helped farmers in a responsible manner with an attitude befitting master during the campaign for aiding the countryside by fully displaying the spirit of loving and aiding the people, he said that the People's Army, their sons and daughters and the main force of the Korean revolution, should become a model in aiding the countryside, too. He called upon all the servicepersons to come out for a harvesting campaign and discharge the duty as a revolutionary army once again.
    He gave the soldiers of the sub-unit a pair of binoculars 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.