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Kim Yong Nam Meets Chinese Artistes

Pyongyang July 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met with leading members and principal actors and actresses of the Art Group of Dance Drama "Confetti on Silk Road" of the Gansu Provincial Song and Dance Theatre of China headed by Zhang Ming, vice-director of the Gansu Provincial Cultural Department, at Ponghwa Art Theatre Monday and had a friendly talk with them. They are visiting the DPRK on the 50th anniversary of the DPRK-China treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance and the 30th anniversary of the performance of the Dance Drama here.

Present there were Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, An Tong Chun, minister of Culture, Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, and Ri Yong Ho, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Liu Hongcai, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.