calendar>>January 9. 2017 Juche 106
Sports Day Observed in DPRK
Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- The second Sunday of every month is fixed for the sports day in the DPRK. The first day of sports for this year falls on January 8.

On this occasion, there are taking place group running, health-promoting Taekwon-Do, mass rhythmic exercise and other colorful sports activities throughout the country. And schoolchildren play top spinning, kite-flying, sleigh-riding and other folk games.

Numerous sports facilities are being arranged in different parts of the country where inter-industrial establishments and cooperative farms contests are visible.

A hot wind of volleyball, table-tennis, football and tennis is raging everywhere.

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