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Officials and Members of Women's Union Visit Anti-Japanese War Heroine Kim Jong Suk's Birthplace
Hoeryong, December 24 (KCNA) -- Officials and members of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea from across the country visited the anti-Japanese war heroine Kim Jong Suk's birthplace in Hoeryong on Tuesday, her 102nd birth anniversary.

The visitors laid a floral basket and bouquets and made a bow before her statue at the foot of Osan Hill.

Being told that she, born into a patriotic and revolutionary family, keenly experienced misery and all sorts of hardships of the stateless nation and nurtured the will of patriotism against Japan, the visitors looked round historical mementoes at her native home.

At the Hoeryong Revolutionary Museum, they learned about the revolutionary life of Kim Jong Suk who glorified her whole life as the loyal guard of President Kim Il Sung till the last moments of her life after she embarked on the road of the revolution at her early age.

Meanwhile, they toured units including the Hoeryong Foodstuff-processing Factory and Hoeryong Schoolchildren's Palace.

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