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DPRK's April Holidays Commemorated
Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- Round-table talks, lecture, photo exhibition and film show took place in Romania, Uganda and Guinea on the occasions of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 16th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission in the period between April 7 and 10.

On display in the venue of the photo exhibition were photos on the theme of the Day of the Sun.

Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of Romania who is chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, at the round-table talks said that Kim Il Sung is father of socialist Korea as he liberated the country and brilliantly realized the causes of founding the party, the country and the army.

He noted that the sovereignty and dignity of socialist Korea have been defended more firmly thanks to Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

Malik Souma, director general of the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea, in the lecture stressed that the important characteristics of the leadership method of Kim Jong Il is to keep a firm hold on ideology and settle all problems by dint of ideology.

A Korean film "International Friendship Exhibition House" was seen at the film show.

A message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the lecture held in Guinea.

Meanwhile, opening ceremonies of Korean book, photo and handicraft exhibitions were held in Konakov City of Tveri Region, Irkutsk City of Irkutsk Region and Artyom City of Maritime Territory of Russia in the period between April 7 and 11 on the occasion of the April holidays.

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