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Cambodian King Pays Respects to Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni sent a large basket of flowers to the DPRK embassy in Phnom Penh on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Written on the ribbon of the basket were letters reading "Glory to H.E. Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni."

Upon the authorization of the king, a delegation of the Ministry of the Royal Palace of Cambodia led by Kong Sam Ol, deputy prime minister in charge of the royal palace, visited the DPRK embassy on February 3 to lay the floral basket before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

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