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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit for Training Recruits

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

   Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected KPA Unit 3898 for training recruits.
    He learned about how the educational programme is being implemented and watched the training of recruits. He was satisfied to know that the unit has organized diverse forms of effective trainings to train recruits well informed of military regulations and possessed of strong physical bodies in a brief span of time.
    Praising the recruits for preparing themselves as stalwart soldiers through their intensive training, he said that the training of recruits is particularly important for those soldiers who begin their military service.
    He acquainted himself in detail with how the political work is being conducted among recruits, going round a soldiers' hall, an education room and other entertainment and educational facilities.
    He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled by the unit to deepen the ideological work, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that the unit has trained the soldiers as fighters strong in idea and faith by preparing diverse educational materials needed for conducting the revolutionary and working-class education in a unique manner to suit the peculiarities of the recruits and organizing brisk political work by use of them.
    He watched an art course being conducted for the recruits. The soldier culture representing the era of Songun is efflorescing as the days go by as soldiers are given the opportunity to acquire rich knowledge about arts from the days of recruits and bringing their talents into full bloom, he noted, underscoring the need to pay deep attention to their cultural and emotional life so that revolutionary optimism may prevail in the whole army.
    He walked round the compound of the barracks to learn about the management of the unit.
    After making the rounds of a bedroom, a mess hall, a kitchen, a non-staple food store, a food processing room, a welfare service complex and other supply service facilities, he expressed great satisfaction with the fact that the commanding officers of the unit have provided the recruits with good conditions for their living and significantly improved their diet by positively developing the sideline farming, in particular.
    No period is as beautiful and worthwhile as the days spent by one as a soldier with arms, he noted, urging all recruits to glorify the worthwhile days of their military service with shining feats.
    He had a photograph taken with the servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su.