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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Navy Unit

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

    Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected the command of Navy Unit 152 of the KPA.
    Being guided by the commander of the unit, he went round a room devoted to the education in revolutionary history, a room devoted to the unit's history and a room devoted to preservation and education in slogan-bearing trees.
    Seeing the relics and data associated with revolutionary history, he recalled with deep emotion the days of President Kim Il Sung's leadership over the building of navy.
    The Navy of the KPA could grow to be invincible forces under the wise leadership and deep care of the President who devoted all his energies to building and strengthening the naval forces until the last moments of his life, he said, adding: His immortal revolutionary exploits for the building of the Juche-oriented navy will remain long in the history of the country.
    Noting that those trees bearing slogans written during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle are a precious asset of the Korean revolution, he stressed the need to intensify the education of servicepersons through the slogans and thus arm them more firmly with the revolutionary idea of the WPK.
    He dropped in at an operation command room to learn about the unit's performance of duty.
    He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the unit to increase its combat capability in every way, satisfied to learn that the servicepersons of the unit are carrying out their guard duties in a responsible manner.
    He made the rounds of the servicepersons' hall, a library and other entertainment and cultural and educational facilities to learn about how the political work is being conducted among seamen.
    All units have successfully built libraries and minutely organized their service, thus markedly boosting the soldiers' zeal for reading, he noted, adding that the habit of reading books established in the whole army is another praiseworthy trait created by the KPA in the era of Songun.
    After visiting the Hero Ri Kwang Su Company, he said it is good for the servicepersons of the unit to make their youth worthwhile with arms. He urged all servicepersons to become heroes in the new century by carrying forward the soul of the revolutionary forerunners.
    Then he went round a mess hall, a kitchen, a non-staple food store, a mushroom cultivation room and other supply service facilities of the unit modernly built to suit the characteristic features of the seamen. He appreciated the efforts made by the commanding officers of the unit, expressing satisfaction over the fact that they have provided the soldiers with good living conditions, bearing deep in mind the teaching of the President that supply service is at once a political work.
    He looked round the exterior and interior of the soldiers' health complex newly built by the unit and indicated tasks to be fulfilled by it to manage and operate it and ways to do so.
    Underscoring the need to show special care for the living of the seamen as they live in the rough sea all the year round, he called on all commanding officers to show warm love for the soldiers and look after them with paternal care so that they may not feel even the slightest inconvenience in their living.
    Kim Jong Il had a photo session with the servicepersons of the unit.