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Koreans in China Celebrate Day of Shining Star
Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- The General Association of Koreans in China held celebrations in Yanji City, Jilin Province, China on Feb. 16, the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (the Day of the Shining Star.)

There took place a meeting of the association.

Present there were Chairwoman Choe Un Bok and other officials of the association, representatives of its affiliated regional associations and branches, the Federation of Korean National Economic Workers in China and the Federation of Korean Young Nationals in China, and Koreans in China.

Personages of China were present on invitation.

Choe Un Bok in a report said that Generalissimo Kim Jong Il, who was born as the son of guerillas on Mt. Paektu, the holy mountain of revolution, and grew up to be the great revolutionary, wisely led the revolution and construction to the ever-victorious road for a long period and performed immortal feats for the country, people, era and history.

The revolutionary cause of Juche is sure to win as Marshal Kim Jong Un, the peerlessly brilliant commander who is carrying forward the lineage of Mt. Paektu, is standing in the van of the Korean revolution and there are the invincible revolutionary army and all people who have achieved single-minded unity.

A letter to the Marshal was adopted.

At the end of the meeting the participants watched Korean film "2015, Year of Revolutionary Auspicious Events".

Then followed an art performance.

Earlier, the Zhongnan Regional Association of the General Association of Koreans in China held an event on Feb. 12.

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