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Wreaths Laid before Liberation Towers

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the Liberation Tower and in the cemetery of fallen fighters of the Soviet army in Sadong District, Pyongyang, this morning on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of Korea's liberation. Present at the wreath-laying ceremonies were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Sin Il Nam, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, and other officials concerned, generals and officers of the Korean people's Army and working people in the city.
    Also present there were Charge d'Affaires ad interim of the Russian embassy here Oleg Dabydov and embassy officials. Wreaths were laid before the Liberation Tower and in the cemetery in the joint name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet of the DPRK, amid the playing of the wreath-laying music.
    Wreaths were also laid in the name of the Russian embassy here.
    Wreaths were laid before the liberation tower in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and in the joint name of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Russia Friendship Association and in the joint name of the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK and the Pyongyang City People's Committee. Wreaths were placed at the cemetery of the fallen fighters of the Soviet army in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Fisheries, in the joint name of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-Russia Friendship Association, in the joint name of the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK and the Pyongyang City People's Committee and in the joint name of the Sadong District, Pyongyang City, Committee of the WPK and the Sadong District, Pyongyang City, People's Committee.
    Members of the Consulate General of Russia in Chongjin laid bunches of flowers before the liberation tower and in the cemetery of fallen fighters of the Soviet army there on the same day.
    Wreaths were also placed before liberation towers, monuments to the fallen fighters of the Soviet army, statues of Soviet soldiers and in cemeteries of fallen fighters of the Soviet army in Chongjin, Haeju, Wonsan, Nampho and other local areas in the joint name of provincial and city people's committees, and bouquets and flowers were laid there by members of the Russian embassy here.