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11th Kimjongilia Festival Opens

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

   Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- The 11th Kimjongilia Festival was opened here.
    Exhibited in the venue of the festival are more than 25,000 potted Kimjongilias cultivated by the military organs, commissions and ministries of the Cabinet and national institutions and other institutions and industrial establishments, servicepersons and people from all walks of life and school youth and children.
    Also on display there are potted Kimjongilias cultivated by the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), overseas Koreans and south Koreans and the diplomatic missions here and the organizations for friendship with the DPRK and social bodies in different countries and individual figures and Chinese residents here.
    An opening ceremony took place at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition on Feb. 14.
    Present at the ceremony were Choe Thae Bok and Yang Hyong Sop and Cabinet members and leading officials of the ministries, the national institutions and working people's organizations and officials of the units, servicepersons, working people and school youth and children who contributed Kimjongilias to the festival.
    Also present there were the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan led by Ri Ki Sok, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, on a visit to the socialist homeland on the occasion of the birthday of Kim Jong Il and the members of the visiting group of Chongryon.
    Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the Cabinet, who is chairman of the organizing committee of the Kimilsungia- Kimjongilia Festival, in an opening address said that the Kimjongilia festival has developed for years into a flower festival to be proud of in the world in terms of its style, contents and scale, adding that the current festival would record another brilliant chapter in the history of the festival of the flower of the sun.