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Coach, Witness to Kim Jong Il's Field Guidance
Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- On display at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, is a coach leader Kim Jong Il had used in his lifetime, when giving field guidance to various units across the country.

He made 1 647 trips of field guidance by train, covering more than 398,000 kilometers, in disregard of weather conditions. Therefore, the people of the DPRK called his coach "office carriage" or the "supreme command moving on railroads".

Encouraged by his field guidance, the local people achieved noteworthy successes in their efforts to turn the country into a thriving socialist nation.

In his lifetime, Kim Jong Il always regarded people's happiness as his own and made ceaseless trips to different parts of the country.

It was also in the "office carriage" that he passed away in December 2011.

2 years have passed since his demise, but the coach reminds everyone of his whole life of devotion to the happiness and wellbeing of the people. -0-

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