Order of "Star of the Protectors of Arts" to Kim Jong Il
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- A ceremony of conveying Order of "Star of the Protectors of Arts," highest commendation presented to leader Kim Jong Il by the Russian International Charity Fund "Protectors of Arts for the Century", was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on September 30. Present at the ceremony were President of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong Nam, Minister of Culture Choe Ik Gyu, acting Chairman of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Mun Jae Chol, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kung Sok Ung and officials concerned. On hand were members of the visiting delegation of the Russian International Charity Fund "Protectors of Arts for the Century" led by President Oleg Vitaliyevich Oleinik, Russian Charge d'Affaires Oleg Davydov and staff members of the Russian embassy here.
Addressing the ceremony, the president of the Russian International Charity Fund said that he has the honour of awarding jeweled order of "Star of the Protectors of Arts" in the name of the Supporters' Council of the Russian International Charity Fund to Kim Jong Il who made a great contribution to the expansion of cooperation between Russian and Korean peoples and the development of education, culture, sciences and art.
Kim Jong Il greatly contributed to peace and security, working at the lofty post of general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, the president said, stressing that significant and creative plans could be successfully carried out in Korea as the result that he encouraged the development of culture and art and paid deep concern to social development.
And then the president handed the order to Kim Yong Nam.
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