7th Kimjongilia Show opens
KCNA
Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The 7th Kimjongilia Show was opened in Pyongyang today on the occasion of Kim Jong Il's birthday.
Large posters were seen standing in front of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia exhibition, its venue.
Put on display in the hall were more than 17,000 potted Kimjongilias presented by ministries of the cabinet, national institutions, armed forces organs and working people from all walks of life from all provinces, foreign guests and overseas Koreans.
Seen on the stands were slogans and letters reading "Long live General Kim Jong Il, the Sun of the 21st Century", "Highest Glory to Respected General Kim Jong Il", "Peerlessly Great Man", "Army-Based Leadership" and "Devoted Defence", etc.
The opening ceremony was attended by vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, Secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea Jong Ha Chol and others.
It was also attended by a delegation of the Yanji city landscape and greening management office of china, a delegation of the "Dandong Kimjongilia Hot House" of China, a delegation of the Dandong Jianyuan Trade Company of China and a delegation of the international environmental television group and a delegate of the Berlin Botanical Garden of Germany.
Vice-Premier Kwak Pom Gi, chairman of the DPRK Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Federation, addressing the ceremony said that Kimjongilia is an immortal flower that represents the personality of Kim Jong Il as a great man and a flower of the sun best loved by the Korean people. It is the highest pride of the Korean nation and the desire of humankind to widely cultivate and propagate the flower, he added.
He reiterated the need for the participants to swap achievements and experience they gained in cultivating and propagating the flower during the exhibition period and strengthen exchange and cooperation in the field.
