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Senior Party, Army and State Officials Visit Area of Mt. Paektu

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

   Samjiyon, June 5 (KCNA) -- Senior party, army and state officials, heads of friendly parties, Cabinet members and leading officials of party and armed forces organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions visited revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area. On June 4 they went round Samjiyon Township which has been turned into a socialist fairyland of the Songun era.
    They looked round the Samjiyon Schoolchildren's Palace with a total floor space of more than 7,700 square meters, the Paektusan district sports village built at the long foot of Pegae Hill, the Pegaebong Noodle Shop of a peculiar national style and other wonderful buildings, retrospecting the immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il who has devoted himself to turning the area of Mt. Paektu into a paradise of people.
    They also went round the Samtogong log bin that Kim Jong Il dropped in at on the way of his study tour of the revolutionary battle sites 50 years ago, and inspected a camping site on Chong Hill, the Rimyongsu Revolutionary Site, etc.
    On June 5 they were being briefed about the monument to propositions of Kim Jong Il erected at the foot of Mudu Hill and climbed Mt. Paektu.
    They looked round the historic relics carefully preserved at the historic native home in the secret camp of Mt. Paektu where Kim Jong Il was born as the lodestar of Paektu.
    They also visited secret camps on Mts. Sono and Kom and a camping site on Pegae Hill.