Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected the Command of KPA Unit 398. After going round the room devoted to the history of the unit, he dropped in at the military lecture room to learn about the unit's performance of duty and training. He set forth the tasks to be tackled by the unit to increase its combat capability, expressing satisfaction over the fact that the unit has trained all its commanding officers as fighters equipped with high combat capability and technique by intensifying the training. He underscored the need for the unit to organize intensive combat and political training and put all forms of trainings on a scientific basis so that all its servicepersons may acquire a-match-for-a hundred combat capability. Looking round combat and technical equipment, he said the future of the cause of socialism and the Songun revolution depends on the arms, a precious legacy of the revolution which has been handed down through generations, as it is associated with the blood and soul of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners. He urged all the servicepersons to prize the weapons like the apples of their eyes and handle them with good care.
He made the rounds of the servicepersons' hall, library and other entertainment and educational facilities to acquaint himself with their cultural and emotional life. He praised the unit for having refurbished the servicepersons' hall well as a centre for entertainment and education and operated it on a regular basis, stressing the need to provide ample conditions for their cultural and emotional life. He was very pleased to learn about the excellent relations that exist between the servicepersons of the unit and the inhabitants of the area where it is stationed and emphasized the might of the rock-like unity between the army and people is a source of victory because no powerful weapon can ever match it.