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Kim Jong Suk's Birthday Observed in Brazil
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The Brazil-Korea Friendship Association issued bulletin on Dec. 9 on the occasion of the 92nd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk, anti-Japanese heroine.

The bulletin in an article said that Kim Jong Suk conducted so energetic activities for the accomplishment of President Kim Il Sung's cause of nation-building not only in the days of the anti-Japanese struggle but also after the liberation of the country that she failed to visit her birthplace before her demise.

It recalled that General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited every nook and corner of the country to translate her desire into reality but found no opportunity to visit Hoeryong.

He visited her birthplace in last February this year at last only after inspecting the Chollima Steel Complex in December last year to make the wave of the drive for effecting a new great revolutionary surge sweep the country, drawing the particular attention of the world community, it stressed.

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