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Venue of Kimjongilia Festival Draws Endless Stream of Visitors
Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- At least 270 000 people have visited the venue of the 17th Kimjongilia Festival since it was opened on Feb. 14 on the occasion of the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il.

Among them were service persons, people from all walks of life, school youth and children, overseas Koreans and foreigners.

The stands of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces and the Korean People's Army unit commanded by Kim Song Dok, etc. arranged with flowers of the sun in a peculiar manner attracted particular attention of the visitors.

The visitors were seized by boundless reverence for Kim Jong Il, while looking round the stands of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, the Secretariat of the Cabinet of the DPRK, the Ministry of Light Industry, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, etc.

Such profound reverence for the great man was clearly reflected by the stands of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea decorated with hundreds of potted Kimjongilias in full bloom and those immortal flowers from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and Koreans from various countries and regions.

The visitors went round flowers of the sun contributed by diplomatic missions of foreign countries and international bodies here and friendship bodies in other countries and foreign figures.

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