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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Company and Power Station

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

    Pyongyang, September 21 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected a company of KPA Unit 916 and a power station built by KPA Unit 966. He acquainted himself with the company's performance of duty and watched its servicepersons' training.
    He expressed satisfaction over the fact that all the servicepersons have been trained as a-match-for-a-hundred fighters and set forth tasks to be fulfilled to increase the combat capability of the company.
    He paid deep attention to the service and living of servicepersons, going round an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a wash-cum-bath house, barber's, a non-staple food store, an outdoor resting place and other entertainment and logistic facilities.
    He was greatly satisfied to learn that the unit has realized electrification at a high level by use of electricity produced by itself and built all modern facilities for entertainment and supply service to the convenience of the servicepersons. It is very good to use electricity in doing everything including room-heating, cooking and operation of saunas, he said, underscoring the need for all units to realize electrification to provide the servicepersons with highly civilized and affluent living conditions.
    He gave the servicepersons of the company a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.
    The next leg of his inspection was a new power station built by KPA Unit 966. He learned in detail about the construction of the power station and the production of electricity there, going round a generator-room, power-distribution room and a big man-made reservoir.
    He highly praised the feats performed by the servicepersons of the unit, saying it is a great success that in recent years they have built several modern power stations one after another by widely using the latent reserves to produce a lot of electricity for the successful electrification in the unit.
    The servicepersons are fully displaying the might of the revolutionary army in all difficult and labor-consuming fields to build a rich and powerful country, confident that for them there is nothing impossible, under the uplifted slogan "Let's Take Charge of Both the Defence of the Country and the Socialist Construction!", he said, adding that this is the noble patriotic fighting spirit which can be displayed only by the KPA, the defender of the country and people and creator of their happiness. He stressed the need to improve the technical control and management of equipment at the power stations to keep the production of electricity going at a high rate and set forth tasks to do so.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.