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Sports Contest for Paektusan Cup Closes

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 9 (KCNA) -- The 10th Sports Contest of officials of national institutions for Paektusan Cup, which opened on Jan. 25 to celebrate the auspicious February holiday, closed with due ceremony at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium Tuesday. Officials of the ministries and national institutions fully displayed the staunch fighting spirit, patience and collectivism and sport techniques they have cultivated in ordinary times in various events including basketball, volleyball, tug-of-war and Taekwon-Do.
    The contest was divided into four groups. The teams of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Mansudae Art Studio, the Koryo Service Guidance Bureau and the Mining Machine Industry Guidance Bureau each came first in team standing.
    The Koryo Service Guidance Bureau placed first in Taekwon-Do, the Ministry of Commerce in tug-of-war, the Taesong General Bureau in table-tennis, the men's team of the Foreign Ministry and the women's team of the Sonbong Guidance Bureau in basketball, the men's team of the Ministry of Land and Environment Preservation and the women's team of the Mansudae Art Studio in volleyball and the Academy of Social Sciences in Korean chess and Yut game.
    Present at the closing ceremony were Secretary of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jung Rin, Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi, officials concerned, officials of ministries and national institutions, sports fans and working people in the city.
    The closing ceremony was addressed by Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea.