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Kimjongilia Festival Going On Successfully

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) -- The 9th Kimjongilia Festival which was opened on February 12 in Pyongyang is going on with success amid deep interest of Koreans and foreigners. Every day tens of thousands of servicepersons and people, overseas compatriots and foreigners visit the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition, the venue of the festival on the bank of the picturesque Taedong River.
    On display there are over 19,000 Kimjongilia pots presented by state commissions, ministries, national institutions, military organs, various units, people of all social strata, youth, students, overseas Koreans, diplomatic missions and international organizations in Pyongyang, foreign organizations and individuals.
    The number is 3,000 more than last year's.
    The festival venue is decorated with Kimjongilia flowers and many sorts of beautiful and rare flower plants, pot-plants and other plants.
    Kimjongilia has been highly appreciated at well-known international flower festivals, shows and fairs and registered as a new species at the International Society for Horticultural Science.
    Participants explain about their stands to visitors and horticulturists and flower-lovers exchange their experience in cultivating Kimjongilia.
    A meeting for presenting experience in the cultivation of Kimjongilia was held on February 14 as part of the festival with the attendance of botanical and horticultural scientists and technicians and flower-lovers.
    The festival continues till Feb. 21.