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Day of Shining Star Marked by World Progressive Peoples

Date: 22/03/2017 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- The world progressive peoples splendidly celebrated the 75th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il, the Day of the Shining Star, as a common holiday of humankind.

The Better Nigeria Progressive Party, the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Peru and the Yaracuy State Legislative Council of Venezuela awarded the certificate of the title of honorary national leader, international diploma and the highest order to Kim Jong Il.

The national chairman of the Better Nigeria Progressive Party, the Swiss preparatory committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, the Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea presented gifts to him.

Different preparatory committees for celebrating the Day of the Shining Star grouping figures of political and social circles were organized in many countries and by the International Alliance of Societies for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Policy in East European and Central Asian Regions and the African Regional Committee of Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People, and press statements, statements and declarations were released in this regard.

The preparatory committees gave wide publicity to the revolutionary career of Kim Jong Il and conducted dynamic activities for significantly holding colorful political and cultural events.

Articles and statements were issued by personages of all social strata and organizations, including the general secretary of the National Guidance Council of the Pioneer Party of Indonesia, the president of the Group of Dialectical Materialists of Italy, the president of the France-Korea Friendship Association, the international secretary of the Youth Organization of the Popular Liberation Movement of Angola, the German Branch of the Korean Friendship Association and the Mfumalanga Provincial Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of South Africa.

The king and the great queen of Cambodia sent large baskets of flowers to the DPRK embassy in Phnom Penh. Floral baskets were also sent to DPRK embassies in relevant countries by the co-chairman of the Council of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation and political parties, organizations, institutions and personages in different countries.

An event of unveiling a tablet to honor Kim Jong Il, a ceremony for donating books, Kimjongilia exhibition, a ceremony of visiting the Kimilsungia Greenhouse and a book-releasing ceremony took place in Russia, China, Mongolia and Guinea and Korean book, photo, stamp and handicraft exhibitions in Indonesia, Bulgaria, Serbia and other countries. Colorful events took place in all parts of the world a hundred of times.

Media of various countries widely introduced the revolutionary history of Kim Jong Il and works of the peerlessly great men were carried by bulletins, newspapers and posted on internet websites in many countries and by regional bodies. -0-

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