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Kim Jong Il inspects artillery unit

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-15 14:42

PYONGYANG - Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has inspected an artillery unit and watched their shooting exercise, state media reported on Sunday.

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After watching the exercise, Kim said he was very satisfied that the army was "fully prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique to beat back any enemy's surprise invasion in time and defend the socialist homeland as firm as an iron wall."

Kim was accompanied by the defense minister and chief of the general staff while watching the artillery exercise.

The report didn't give the date of the inspection.