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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

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

    Pyongyang, February 24 (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 226 situated on the forefront. He went round the room devoted to the history of the unit, guided by its commander. He praised the unit as a unit of merit as it has fully displayed the heroic spirit of the KPA in defending the country and the socialist construction and underscored the need for the servicepersons of the unit to demonstrate its might as an ever-victorious force in the future, too, by carrying forward its glorious tradition.
    He watched servicepersons in training at a military lecture room. He set forth tasks to be undertaken to further increase the unit's combat capability, greatly satisfied to learn that the servicepersons of the unit have fully acquired the WPK's Juche-based war methods through intensive combat and political training and reliably safeguarded the defence line of the country with high revolutionary vigilance and a strained combat posture.
    He learned about the soldiers' cultural and emotional life, going round a servicepersons' hall, a library and other entertainment and cultural facilities. A revolutionary literary and art work is one of the important media giving the young people ideological and moral pabulum, he said, calling on all the servicepersons to read more revolutionary novels.
    Then he made the rounds of a mess hall, a kitchen and other supply service facilities and highly praised the unit for having provided good living conditions to them by itself. Noting that the KPA has set an example for the society and played the role of a pacemaker in all aspects of thinking, culture, struggle and life, proving that there is nothing impossible for it either in the defence of the country or in the socialist construction, he said its revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude serves as a powerful engine dynamically advancing the times and the revolution. Then he inspected a company of the unit. He took deep care of its soldiers' service and living, looking round various places of the company.
    He met soldiers of the company and conversed with them. He was very pleased to see all of them trained as stalwart fighters.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars 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.