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Sharp Increase of Participants in Flower Festival Expected

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- It is expected that more and more units will participate in the forthcoming 9th Kimjongilia Festival that will be larger in scale than the last one, said Ri Pyong Pha, a department director of the Korean Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee in an interview with KCNA. The increasing number of the participants in the traditional festival ever since its first round in Juche 86(1997) has always needed additional steps.
    The 9th festival (from February 12 to 21) will be held on an unprecedented scale this year which marks the 60th anniversaries of the Workers' Party of Korea and national liberation.
    More units and people in Pyongyang and local areas are still applying to the organizing committee for their participation.
    The festival committee plans to arrange the festival venue in a three-dimensional way so as to meet the demand of the applicants.
    The forthcoming festival, which will be held to celebrate leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, will surely reflect the ardent reverence of the Korean people for him.