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Socialism in DPRK Praised by Finnish Party Leader
Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) -- Tommi Lievemaa, vice-chairman of the Finnish Communists' League who participated in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, contributed a travelogue on the DPRK to the Finnish paper Kansan Eeni on September 3.

The travelogue said:

My visit to the DPRK was a trip completely different from tours of other countries as I was born and grew up in a capitalist country.

The propaganda of the West about the DPRK is full of lies.

I strongly felt this at the very moment I arrived at the DPRK.

I know about the DPRK only through what I have listened to broadcasting services and read on newspapers. So, what I saw in that country including a grandiose parade, fascinating grand gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" and opening ceremony of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, etc. baffled my imagination.

My visit to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il lie in state offered me an important opportunity to think a lot.

One may call the International Friendship Exhibition House which houses gifts to the leaders of the DPRK from heads of state and prominent figures of many countries of the world an edifice which bears witness to humankind's reverence and praise of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The appearance of the Korean people full of optimism and joy was true as no one can force those things upon them and fabricate them.

Streets looked neat and tidy though there were not dazzling advertisement boards.

The DPRK is a country free from pollution and taxes.

The country where free education and free medical service are enforced provides dwelling houses to people free of charge and jobs to them.

In the DPRK I could hardly find something symbolic of a capitalist society such as sense of oppression resulting from unstable future employment, uneasiness about joblessness, worries about houses and money and fear of violence, etc.

I think that one should go to the DPRK if one wishes to know about the superiority of socialism to capitalism.

The sovereignty of the country belongs to all people and they carve out their future themselves and fully enjoy genuine freedom, concluded the travelogue.

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