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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit

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

   Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected KPA Unit 895 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th regiment.
    After watching the training of the soldiers, he expressed his satisfaction over the fact that the servicepersons of the unit have grown to be a-match-for-a hundred fighters by undergoing an intensive training without having the time to get their uniforms wet with sweat dry, determined to greet the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK with shining successes in the combat and political training. He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled by the unit to boost its combat capability.
    It is the primary revolutionary task for the servicepersons under arms to train well, he said, stressing the need to focus all efforts on intensifying the training.
    He made the rounds of the servicepersons' hall, a library and other entertainment and educational facilities to acquaint himself in detail with how the political work is conducted among its servicepersons.
    He praised the unit for having successfully built the centers for cultural education and conducted the political and ideological work in a unique manner in diverse forms and ways to train the servicepersons into heroes of the new century.
    Watching the information about the noble comradeship displayed by the officers and soldiers of the unit, he said that the ranks united close on the basis of the comradeship are sure to triumph.
    Walking round the compound of the barracks clad in thick verdure, he learned about how the unit has created a thick woodland and greenery.
    He highly appreciated the feats performed by the servicepersons of the unit, greatly pleased to learn that they have successfully turned the compound of the barracks and its surroundings into a thick woodland and greenery in firm unity.
    Noting that the people in the society have turned out as one in the afforestation with ardent enthusiasm, following the example set by the army, he stressed the need for the army and people to pool their efforts to make the mountains of the country thicker with green foliage and build a beautiful land of bliss good to live in.
    Then he took deep care of the service and living of its servicepersons, going round an education room, bedroom, mess hall, wash-cum-bath house, non-staple food store and other places.
    He appreciated the assiduous and tenacious way the unit has managed its economic life, pleased to know that the unit has built supply service facilities convenient to its servicepersons.
    He gave the servicepersons of the unit a pair of binoculars, a machinegun and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Kim Myong Guk.