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Kim Jong Il's Birthday Celebrated in Russia and India
Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) -- A film show took place in Russia and a meeting, a lecture, a book exhibition and a film show in India from Jan. 15 to 23 on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

On display in the venues were President Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century" and books on the revolutionary feats of Kim Jong Il and the advantages of the Korean socialist system.

Appreciated at the film shows were "Army of Korea" and "Party Founding Memorial Tower" and other Korean films.

The general director of a Russian company said after the film show that the recent world-startling miracles wrought by the Korean people would have been unthinkable without the wise leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The secretary general of the Indian Youth Group for the Study of Works of Comrade Kim Il Sung said in the lecture that the Korean people, who regard it as their highest national pride and honor to have Kim Jong Il, are praising him as the person possessed of the spirit and wisdom of Mt. Paektu.

He stressed that the Korean people would open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation without fail in 2012, the centenary of birth of Kim Il Sung as they are led by Kim Jong Il, the illustrious commander of Mt. Paektu.

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