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Kim Jong Il's Birthday Celebrated in Different Countries
Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- Events took place in different countries between Jan. 18 and 20 on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il. They included a meeting in Venezuela, a seminar, film show and photo exhibition in Ethiopia and a lecture in Thailand.

Films shown included Korean films "Reply of Korea" and "Korea Shining with Time-honored History."

The organizational secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela said that under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean people are firmly defending the sovereignty and dignity of the country against all sorts of aggression and provocation by the imperialists.

The chiefs of branches of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea noted that Kim Jong Il has developed the DPRK into an invincible socialist state and powerfully aroused the people to build a thriving nation with his extraordinary ideological and theoretical activities and energetic leadership.

Songchit Pullarp, chairman of the Organization for the Study of the Juche Idea of Thailand, said that Kim Jong Il formulated long ago the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung as an integral system of the ideology, theories and methods of Juche and provided energetic leadership to enable the Workers' Party of Korea to demonstrate its dignity and might as the eternal party of the President and as an experienced and tested party.

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