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10th Kimjongilia Festival Closes

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

    Pyongyang, February 21 (KCNA) -- The 10th Kimjongilia Festival that opened on Feb. 14 on the occasion of the February holiday closed today. Displayed in the venue of the festival were at least 23,000 potted Kimjongilias representing the ardent sincerity of more than 100 units including organs of armed forces, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons, working people, school youth and children, the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), overseas compatriots, foreign embassies and missions of international organizations in Pyongyang, foreign friendship organizations, public organizations and individual figures and Chinese residents in the DPRK. During the period of the festival it drew more than 500,000 visitors including officials of organs of the Workers' Party of Korea and armed forces, power bodies, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, servicepersons, people from all other walks of life and school youth and children.
    Among the visitors were members of congratulatory groups and delegations of overseas compatriots including the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan, diplomatic envoys of different countries and representatives of missions of international organizations here, staff members of foreign embassies, the military attaches' corps and the economic and commercial councilors' corps here, the central military band of the Defence Ministry of Russia and many other foreign guests.
    A closing ceremony was held at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition today. Present there were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and others. The jury of the festival announced its results.
    81 units including the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces and the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland were awarded certificates of the best prize for the immortal flower while 18 units including the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the Central Bank and the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea received certificates of excellent prize for the immortal flower. A certificate of the best prize for the immortal flower also went to the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon.
    Certificates of participants in the festival were awarded to 39 individual servicepersons, working people, school youth and children and Chinese residents in Sariwon City and Pongsan County who have contributed to each festival Kimjongilias they have cultivated with all care.
    Kang Nung Su, chairman of the Korean Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee, made a closing address.