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Tower of Juche Idea Draws Endless Stream of Visitors
Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- An endless stream of people at home, Koreans overseas and foreign friends are visiting the Tower of the Juche Idea standing on the bank of the River Taedong in Pyongyang.

This grand tower was unveiled with a large attendance on April 15, Juche 71 (1982), the 70th birthday of President Kim Il Sung, representing the ardent desire of the Korean people and the world progressive people to hand down to posterity the ideological and theoretical exploits of the President, the founder of the immortal Juche idea.

A total of at least two million Koreans at home and compatriots overseas and foreign friends have visited the tower for 27 years since it was unveiled.

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