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Kimjongilia Festival Closes

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 22 (KCNA) -- The 9th Kimjongilia Festival that opened on Feb. 12 on the occasion of the February holiday closed at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition today with due ceremony. Put on display were 19,000 potted Kimjongilias in exceptionally fuller bloom presented by armed forces organizations, ministries, national institutions, provincial units, servicepersons, working people and school youth and children.
    Diplomatic missions of different countries here, missions of international organizations, the Pyongyang mission of the National Democratic Front of south Korea, scores of friendship and solidarity organizations and individual figures in different countries and overseas Koreans also presented immortal flowers to the festival carrying their sincerity.
    The festival venue was visited by senior party, state and army officials, officials of ministries and national institutions, at least 800,000 officers and men of the Korean People's Army, working people and school youth and children, a delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the diplomatic corps, military attaches corps and economic and commercial councilors' corps here and members of delegations and art troupes from at least 100 countries and overseas Koreans staying in the DPRK.
    Present at the closing ceremony were Pak Pong Ju, Yang Hyong Sop, Jong Ha Chol, Kwak Pom Gi, Cabinet members, leading officials of ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations, officials concerned, servicepersons, working people and school youth and children.
    Diplomas and cups of special prize of the immortal flower were awarded to the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, Ri Sang Ryol-led unit of the KPA, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Secretariat of the Cabinet which got the highest appreciation at the festival, diplomas of the best prizes of the immortal flower went to 55 units and diplomas of prizes of the same flower to 38 units.
    Diplomas of the best prizes and diplomas of prizes of the immortal flower, prizes of merit and gold, silver and bronze medals were conferred upon 22 individual servicepersons, working people and school youth and children and diplomas of the best prizes of the immortal flower and gold medals went to two Chinese residents in the DPRK.
    Kang Nung Su, chairman of the DPRK Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee made a closing address.