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Foreign Diplomats Tour Area of Mt. Paektu
Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Staff members of foreign embassies and missions of international bodies here toured the area of Mt. Paektu from Sept. 21 to 23.

They placed bunches of flowers before the statue of President Kim Il Sung at the Samjiyon Grand Monument and before the mosaic portraying the three commanders of Mt. Paektu in the Paektusan Secret Camp and paid tribute to them.

Then they visited leader Kim Jong Il's birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp.

Being briefed on the fact that he was born in the period of the anti-Japanese war and brought up as the great son of the guerrillas, they looked round historic relics preserved in the birthplace.

They also went round the Headquarters log cabin used by the President and other places.

Earlier, they went round the Samjiyon Grand Monument.

They climbed Mt. Paektu.

They enjoyed a bird's-eye view of peaks on the mountain.

They looked round the Paektu Museum and toured Rimyongsu Falls, etc.

They were present on invitation at the reception given by the Ryanggang Provincial People's Committee.

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