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12th Kimjongilia Festival Closes

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

   Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The 12th Kimjongilia festival that opened on the occasion of the birthday of Kim Jong Il closed with success.
    It was visited by hundreds of thousands of working people from all walks of life, school youth and children and many foreign guests.
    Among them were senior party, army and state officials, officials of party, armed forces and power bodies, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, congratulatory groups of overseas compatriots, the chief and staff members of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-imperialist National Democratic Front, diplomatic envoys of different countries, the military attaches corps, the economic and commercial councilors corps and representatives of international organizations here and the delegation of the Japanese Society for the Study of Kimilsungism.
    Its closing ceremony took place at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition on Wednesday.
    Present there were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and officials of ministries, national institutions, public organizations and the units which contributed potted immortal flowers to the festival, servicepersons, working people and school youth and children and members of the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan headed by Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). At the ceremony certificates of top prize were awarded to three units including the Ministry of People's Security, those of the best prize to at least 80 units such as the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Secretariat of the Cabinet and the Taesong Guidance Bureau, those of excellent prize to ten odd units including the Ministry of State Construction Control and those of special prize to the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, the General Association of Koreans in China and the Jilin Friendship Export and Import Co., Ltd. of China.
    Certificates of participation went to many families, servicepersons, working people, school youth and children and Chinese residents in the DPRK.
    Kim Pyong Hun, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Unions of Literature and the Arts of Korea, in a closing address underscored the need to make the festival of immortal flower more splendid and meaningful so as to significantly celebrate the greatest holiday of the Korean nation, holiday common to mankind.