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Kimjongilia Festival Goes on with Success

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- The 8th Kimjongilia Festival is going on with great success. The Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition, the venue of the festival, on the bank of the picturesque River Taedong in Pyongyang has been visited every day by an average of 80,000 Korean servicemen and people, overseas Koreans and foreigners.
    On display there are 16,000 odd Kimjongilia pots reflecting the ardent reverence of the Korean and world progressive people for Kim Jong Il.
    The flowers exhibited by the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces on the first floor are drawing deep attention of visitors.
    They, with a picture of Kim Jong Il in the center, are associated with the infinite loyalty of the officers and men of the three services to the leader.
    The flowers presented by the Korean Revolution Museum, the Ministry of Metal and Machine-Building Industries, Academy of Sciences and the Mansudae Art Studio are larger and more beautiful than others.
    Ri Sang Mi's family in Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, has participated in the festival from the first one. Its exhibits show well the unanimous will of all the families throughout the country to entrust their destiny and future to Kim Jong Il, holding him in high esteem as the father.
    Sixty-three foreign organizations including diplomatic missions in Pyongyang have sent hundreds of Kimjongilia pots to the exhibition.
    The Russian embassy here has displayed flowers it has prepared with utmost care against the background of a photograph of leader Kim Jong Il, who has made a distinguished contribution to the development of the DPRK-Russia relations, meeting with President Putin.
    The Indian Ambassador to the DPRK has sent several flower pots to the festival.
    Cuban Ambassador Esteban Lobaina Romero wrote in the visitors' book after visiting the festival: I am deeply impressed through the visit to the beautiful Kimjongilia Festival. We have also exhibited some flower pots as a token of our admiration and boundless respect for the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il. I sincerely hope that his great ideas will always shine in the mind of the peace and justice-loving people of the world.