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Russian FM Visits Kumsusan Memorial Palace
Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov, foreign minister of the Russian Federation, and his party visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace Thursday to pay their respects to President Kim Il Sung.

The guests made bows in boundless reverence for Kim Il Sung who made undying contributions to the development of the friendly relations between the DPRK and Russia and the global independence.

The foreign minister wrote in the visitor's book that he paid homage to President Kim Il Sung, an outstanding state activist and the founder of the DPRK, adding that the President would always be remembered by the Russian people as a resolute defender of friendship and cooperation between the two countries and two peoples.

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