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Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Sub-Unit

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

   Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected a sub-unit of KPA Unit 826.
    After acquainting himself with the sub-unit's performance of duty, he watched the training of its servicepersons.
    He put forward important tasks which would serve as guidelines in further intensifying the training, noting that to conduct combat training well is a basic guarantee for increasing the combat capability of the sub-unit.
    Going round an education room and other cultural and educational facilities, he learned about how a political work was conducted among servicepersons.
    Seeing various educational materials and visual aids displayed in different places of the sub-unit, he praised it for conducting effective political work by successfully building cultural and educational facilities to suit the characteristics of the soldiers.
    Then he paid deep attention to the living of the soldiers, making the rounds of a bedroom, a mess hall, a wash-cum-bath house, a bean store, a barn and other supply service facilities.
    He highly appreciated the revolutionary lifestyle prevalent in the sub-unit, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that it is assiduously and tenaciously managing its economic life.
    He also highly appreciated patriotism displayed by the soldiers of the sub-unit, praising them for planting many trees every year to turn the compound of their barracks and the nearby mountains into a thick woodland and greenery.
    Noting that the soldiers of each unit visited by him are making their economic life abundant by their own efforts and have successfully spruced up their posts, he stressed that the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude being displayed by the KPA serves as a powerful engine for dynamically advancing the era and the revolution.
    He gave the servicepersons of the sub-unit a pair of binoculars, a machine gun and an automatic rifle as gifts before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Generals Hyon Chol Hae and Ri Myong Su.