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12th Kimjongilia Festival Opens

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

   Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- The 12th Kimjongilia festival opened with splendor here Wednesday.
    Seen in the venue of the festival is a computer-aided diorama "Blizzard on Mt. Paektu" portraying Kim Jong Il standing on Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of the revolution.
    Put on display are tens of thousands of potted Kimjongilias contributed with sincerity by more than 100 units including armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, people from all walks of life and school youth and children, the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), the General Association of Koreans in China, and other overseas Koreans organizations, overseas Koreans, south Koreans, diplomatic missions of various countries, the EU and international organizations here, foreign friendship and public organizations, enterprises and figures and Chinese residents in the DPRK.
    The opening ceremony held at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition was attended by Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and officials concerned, officials of ministries, national institutions, working people's organizations and units which contributed the flowers of the sun to the festival and others.
    Also present were overseas Koreans congratulatory groups including a group of Koreans in Japan led by Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, on a visit to the socialist homeland.
    Kim Pyong Hun, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, in an opening address said that the festival of immortal flower, an annual event, is an expression of the ardent reverence of the army and people of the DPRK and progressive humankind for Kim Jong Il who has led the Songun revolution to victory with his outstanding idea and extraordinary leadership to usher in the great heyday of Kim Il Sung's Korea.