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Kim Jong Il Inspects Recruit Training Subunit of KPA

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

   Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected a recruit training subunit under KPA Unit 776 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment.
    He acquainted himself with the performance of the subunit's duty before dropping in at an education room to learn in detail about how diverse visual aid materials for education there are used.
    Then he advanced tasks for conducting in depth the ideological work.
    After inspecting an art lecture given for newly-enlisted soldiers, he said it is very good that the soldiers are improving their talents to the full, acquiring ample knowledge about the arts. And he praised the unit for having paid deep attention to their cultured and emotional life.
    During the years of military service, a soldier would experience everything of life--what is revolution, how warm comradeship is and how precious his or her native place and country are--, he said, stressing that the period of military service is just the course of revolutionary university.
    He met and had a cordial conversation with Yu Hyang Sim, who served as a lecturer, asking about the welfare of her parents, brothers and sisters and gave a high appreciation of her who has devoted her wisdom and energy to the recruits.
    Seeing a wide playground, various sports facilities and well-built outdoor rest place and different recreation appliances there, the supreme commander expressed great satisfaction over the fact that enough conditions have been provided for the soldiers to have entertainment to the full.
    Then he went round a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a daily provision store, a wash-cum-bath room and other supply service facilities, and highly estimated the unit's commanding officers' revolutionary way of life.
    The country is impregnable as our people, who value arms highly with noble civic consciousness that to defend the country is the most vivid manifestation of patriotism, have become one fortress for safeguarding the country, he urged the newly-enlisted soldiers to firmly train themselves ideologically, morally and physically during the worthwhile military service and thus become ardent revolutionaries and reliable fighters.
    He posed for a souvenir picture with servicepersons of the subunit