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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

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

    Pyongyang, February 6 (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 Unit 1687. After acquainting himself with the unit's performance of duty, he watched servicepersons' training. He set forth tasks to be undertaken to further increase the unit's combat capability, expressing satisfaction over the fact that all the commanding officers and soldiers have been trained as a-match-for-a-hundred fighters who have fully acquired the WPK's Juche-oriented military thoughts and war methods and matchless wisdom and courage. Going round an operation command room and an armory, he learned about how they are performing their guard duties and keeping and handling their weapons. He praised the commanding officers and soldiers of the unit for carrying out their guard duties in a responsible manner, keeping themselves in a strained and mobilized posture, and prizing and handling weapons of the revolution like the apples of their eyes. Looking round an educational room and a video recording and wire broadcasting room and other entertainment and educational facilities, he underscored the need to do the political work the way the anti-Japanese guerillas did to intensify the ideological education gripping the hearts of the servicepersons.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' living, making the rounds of a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a wash-cum-bath house, a non-staple food store and other supply service facilities.
    Seeing the stores stacked with materials for preparing subsidiary food which had been harvested from sideline fields, he noted that peculiar scenery one can witness at any unit is a stirring reality which can be brought about only by the KPA which has remained loyal to the Party at the cost of blood and sweat and made contributions to the prosperity and development of the country with ardent patriotism. He called on all members of the society to wage an uninterrupted drive to learn from the revolutionary soldier spirit and thus bring about fresh changes in all fields. He spared time to watch an art performance given by servicepersons of a company of the unit.
    He had a photo session with servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Kim Il Chol, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, Secretary of the C.C., the WPK Kim Ki Nam, First Vice Department Directors of the C.C., the WPK Ri Yong Chol, Jang Song Thaek and Ri Jae Il and Vice Department Director of the C.C., the WPK Hwang Pyong So.