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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit 3704

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

   Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected KPA Unit 3704 honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led Seventh Regiment.
    He dropped in at the operational command room, the military lecture room and the indoor training hall to learn about the unit's performance of combat duty and the training there.
    He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled by the unit to boost its combat capability, expressing satisfaction over the fact that the servicepersons of the unit are following with high vigilance the every movement of the enemy and performing their guard duties in a responsible manner and the commanding officers and soldiers have acquired a high level of operation commanding ability and combat and technical capability through intensive training.
    He went round an education room, a library and other entertainment and educational facilities to learn about how a political work is being conducted at the unit.
    Praising the unit for having prepared its servicepersons as fighters strong in idea and faith possessed of transparent revolutionary outlook by effectively conducting the politico-ideological education in diverse forms and by various methods, he underscored the need for the army to continue paying primary attention to the ideological work and thus prepare all its servicepersons as pure ideological ranks equipped with the WPK's revolutionary idea.
    Pleased to be informed that the soldiers like very much the new CDs distributed to them, he said that CDs containing films and various other educational materials serve as an important means to provide them with ideological pabulum.
    Then he made the rounds of supply service facilities of the unit to acquaint himself in detail with the living of its servicepersons.
    He looked after all aspects of their life, ranging from the heating of their bedrooms and the organization of the sideline economy to the processing of non-staple food.
    He appreciated the warm love of the soldiers shown by the commanding officers, greatly pleased to learn that the unit has provided its servicepersons with good living conditions by paying deep attention to their living.
    Our soldiers are the pioneers in displaying the spirit of self-reliance as they are successfully settling all issues arising in their living on their own, he said, adding that the KPA is functioning not only as a school training the soldiers into fighters strong in faith and will but a revolutionary university training true patriots who devote all their wisdom and energies to the development of society.
    He spared time to read the letters of thanks that came to the unit from different institutions and people in the area where it is stationed.
    After learning about a lot of facts about how soldiers helped people including the story that when there was a fire in a civilian house, soldiers unhesitatingly rushed into it to save the lives and properties of inhabitants at the cost of their lives, he stressed that these beautiful traits can be found only in the KPA, the protector of the people. He highly appreciated their spirit of loving people.
    To love people is an intrinsic requirement of the People's Army and its traditional beautiful traits dating back to the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle, he noted, stressing the need to carry forward and develop this precious tradition.
    Noting that as one witnessed at this unit, all units of the People's Army have brought about a radical turn in all aspects of the life of their servicepersons such as idea, morality and cultural life by learning from the fighting spirit and lifestyle displayed by the anti-Japanese guerrillas, he emphasized that this shining success is the precious fruition of the great revolutionary soldier spirit created by the KPA in the era of Songun.
    He repeatedly praised the commanding officers and soldiers of the unit for their feats, noting that they have really done a lot of work in the past, true to the Songun leadership of the WPK.
    He had a photo session with the servicepersons of the unit.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su.