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9th Kimjongilia Festival Opens

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 12 (KCNA) -- The 9th Kimjongilia Festival opened in grand style at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition here on Feb. 12. On display there are at least 19,000 potted Kimjongilias presented by commissions of the cabinet, ministries, national institutions, military organs, provincial organizations, people from all walks of life, youth and students, diplomatic missions here, friendly, social and non-governmental aid organizations, individual figures, overseas Koreans, Chinese residents in Korea and the Pyongyang Mission of the National Democratic Front of south Korea.
    Present at its opening ceremony were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Jong Ha Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the Cabinet, members of the Cabinet, senior officials of ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations and officials concerned and others.
    Kang Nung Su, chairman of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee, addressing the ceremony, noted that this festival, a successful annual event, is a peculiar festival of Korean style for praising the great man and a festival of flowers cultivated with loyalty as it will fully demonstrate the unshakable faith and will of the Korean people to make the long march of the Songun revolution following leader Kim Jong Il to the last.
    The current festival will be a more splendid and significant one as it is opened after Kimjongilia, national pride and treasure, was formally registered as a new species at the International Society for Horticultural Science amid the world people's praise of it as a world famous flower.
    At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round with deep emotion the flowers in full bloom representing the Sun that have turned the venue of the festival red like the glow in the sky above the Jongil Peak.