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Kimilsungia Festival and Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Show Open

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

    Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- The 9th Kimilsungia Festival and the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Show to celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army opened here on Friday.
    On display in the venue of the festival and the show of the flowers of the sun to be held in succession on the occasions of the Day of the Sun and the anniversary of the KPA are the flowers in praise of the great men cultivated by armed forces organs, commissions of the Cabinet, ministries, national institutions and institutions in Pyongyang and many servicepersons, working people and school youths and children.
    Also on display are immortal flowers bred by the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and overseas compatriots, diplomatic missions including the Indonesian embassy here and the European Union, friendship and public organizations and personages of different countries and Chinese residents in the DPRK.
    Their opening ceremony was held at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition on Friday.
    Present at the ceremony were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and others.
    On hand were a delegation of Koreans in Japan and other delegations of overseas Koreans, Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno, director of the Dewi Sukarno Office in Japan, and Ri Pyong Sang, chairman of the American Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Association, who are honorary chairpersons of the Society for Supporting the Propagation of Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia, a delegation of the Kimjongilia Greenhouse in Dandong, China, a delegation of the Japanese Kimjongilia Fanciers Society and other delegations and delegates of societies for supporting the propagation of immortal flowers in various countries and regions of the world.
    Present there on invitation were an Indonesian government cultural delegation, the Indonesian ambassador to the DPRK and staff members of his embassy.
    Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi, chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Festival, in an opening address said that Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia are the flowers of the sun symbolizing the greatness of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and flowers praising the great persons now in full bloom in the hearts of humankind in the era of independence. These immortal flowers will remain in fuller bloom with the passage of time, he stressed.
    Sapta Nirwandar, general secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Indonesia who is heading the Indonesian government cultural delegation, made a congratulatory speech.
    On behalf of the government and people of Indonesia he offered sincere thanks to Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Korean people, and all the Korean people for having provided every facility for the delegation to participate in the 9th Kimilsungia festival to be held on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.
    The participants in the ceremony went round with deep emotion the venue of the festival where more than 10,000 flowers of the sun and rare flowers of various species are on display, turning it into a veritable sea of flowers.