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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

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

    Pyongyang, February 23 (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 KPA unit 120 situated on the forefront. After learning about the unit's performance of duty, he looked round military lecture rooms.
    He set forth tasks to be undertaken to increase the unit's combat capability in every way, greatly satisfied to learn that the unit has built modern military lecture rooms and effectively operated them, training all commanding officers and soldiers as a-match-for-a hundred fighters equipped with high combat capability to creditably perform any operational combat duty in a modern warfare.
    He acquainted himself with the ideological work conducted among its servicepersons, going round a serviceperson's hall, a library, a photo studio and other entertainment and educational facilities and a variety of visual aids.
    He underscored the need for the unit to prepare all its servicepersons as soldiers of Ri Su Bok and Kang Ho Yong types in the era of Songun ready to dedicate their lives to the fight for the motherland in the staunch spirit of defending socialism and with ardent patriotism.
    The next leg of his inspection was a sub-unit of the unit.
    He took deep care of the soldiers' service and living, making the rounds of an educational room, a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a wash-cum-bath house, a non-staple food store, a barn and other places.
    He was pleased to know that the unit has provided good living conditions to its soldiers. The KPA has brought about a signal turn in improving the servicepersons' diet by effecting a great upswing in the sideline farming, too, in recent years, he said, adding that this shining success is the brilliant fruition of the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance displayed by the KPA while successfully paving a wide avenue for building a rich and powerful country in the noble idea of independence, self-development and self-reliance.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle 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 and Hwang Pyong So, vice department director of the C.C., WPK.