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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, December 18 (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 sub-unit of KPA Unit 946 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment. He acquainted himself with the performance of the sub-unit's duty before watching the training of the servicepersons in the training lecture room. He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the commanding officers and soldiers of the sub-unit have grown to be a-match-for-a hundred fighters through the training put on a scientific and normal basis and set forth tasks to be fulfilled to further increase the combat power of the sub-unit. He said that in the past period it paid a primary attention to the training so as to get high marks in live firing exercises, adding that to intensify combat training is a basic guarantee for increasing its combat power.
    He learned about the tree planting, highly praised the servicepersons for having made scores of hectares of forest in the recent years and showed high appreciation for their patriotism.
    He then made the rounds of an education room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a washroom-cum-bathroom, a non-stable foodstuff store, a mine-refrigerator, a laundry and other entertainment, educational and supply service facilities to take warm care of the work and living of the servicepersons.
    He was much pleased with the fact that an affluent dietary life has been provided for the soldiers and said that the proud success is ascribable to the strenuous efforts of its commanding officers and soldiers.
    While looking round educational materials on display at the education room, he said TV programs and publications are of weighty importance in education of the servicepersons, stressing the need to publish and distribute a larger number of President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences, "Reminiscences of the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas," "Among the People" and other books and produce a large quantities of TV programs suitable to the features of the servicepersons.
    He said every unit he inspected is abundantly using quality non-stable foodstuffs provided through the efforts to do well sideline farming, adding that it is very good in improving the dietary life as well as helping soldiers adopt a correct attitude toward labor.
    He gave its servicepersons a pair of binoculars and a machine gun as gifts and had a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, First Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Ri Jae Il and Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Hwang Pyong So.