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Preparatory Work for Kimjongilia Festival at Full Swing

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The preparatory work for the 10th Kimjongilia Festival to be held on the occasion of the February holiday, the birthday of leader Kim Jong Il, is going on with a swing in different parts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Secretariat of the Cabinet, the State Academy of Sciences and other ministries and national institutions, which had been highly appreciated at the previous festivals, are dynamically pushing ahead with the preparatory work for the festival.
    Kimjongilias begin to open flowers at Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia greenhouses built in Pyongyang, North Hamgyong and other provinces, cities and counties throughout the country under the special concern and the expectation of the people. Servicepersons and working people across the country are doing their best to cultivate the flower plants by regulating temperature, light and humidity in a scientific way even in the biting cold weather.
    Ri Yong Je, a department director of the Korean Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee, told KCNA that the scale and the number of participants of the festival have increased year after year since the first Kimjongilia exhibition was held in Juche 86 (1997). The number of applicants at present, he went on, is more than that of the previous festival and it is expected that the number of flower plants to be displayed will grow by thousands.
    The festival will be attended by overseas Koreans and foreigners. The upcoming festival will be more conspicuous in the ever-deepening interest of the people at home and abroad in the immortal flower Kimjongilia.