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Kim Jong Il Inspects Command of KPA Unit

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

   Pyongyang, November 9 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected the Command of KPA Unit 627.
    After going round the room devoted to the unit's history, he dropped in at a military lecture room to acquaint himself with the unit's performance of guard duty and the training of its commanding officers.
    He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the unit has prepared all its commanding officers as the ones fully capable of organizing operations and commanding battles.
    Going round the servicepersons' hall and a library, he praised the unit for dynamically conducting political and ideological education through an effective use of diverse materials and training soldiers to be all-round persons equipped with rich knowledge and emotion by establishing a revolutionary habit of reading, in particular.
    Everybody should avidly read books as they are good companions and teachers in life, he said, adding that in order to encourage many soldiers to read precious books for a long period it is necessary to keep and manage them well.
    In recent years the People's Army has intensified the work to increase the enthusiasm to read books, thereby more firmly arming its servicepersons with the revolutionary ideas of the WPK and steadily improving their cultural attainments, he said, noting that the habit of reading books established throughout the army is another praiseworthy trait which can be found only in our revolutionary army steering the era of Songun.
    Looking round supply service facilities of the unit, he appreciated the efforts made by the unit. He was pleased to learn that it has successfully built various supply service facilities to the convenience of its servicepersons in their living and the commanding officers are taking utmost care of the soldiers as their real brothers and sisters would do.
    Learning that the large combined unit to which the unit belongs has successfully built a supply service centre to provide its servicepersons with good conditions for diet, he praised it for having done a good job. He taught ways of energetically pushing ahead with this work and personally settled knotty problems.
    He appreciated the unit's successes, noting that it has done a lot for increasing its combat capacity and, at the same time, for protecting land and environment.
    He posed for a photograph with the servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su and First Vice Department Director of the WPK Central Committee Ri Yong Chol.