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Kim Jong Il's Birthday Observed Abroad
Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Events were held abroad to celebrate February 16, the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

They included lectures and a film show in Guinea and Russia between January 25 and 27.

Participants in the film show watched Korean film "The Arch of Triumph".

The chairman of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea at Kankan University referred to the fact in a lecture that Kim Jong Il has attached great importance to achieving the unity and cohesion in thinking and will based on the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung so that the party might creditably perform its mission and role as the staff of the revolution since he started his work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

He made public various works in recent years, too, dynamically arousing the Korean people to the building of a thriving nation, the chairman noted, adding that the socialist cause in the DPRK led by him is sure to triumph.

The chief of the February 16 Art Group of Guinea said in a lecture that Kim Jong Il is lauded as the great father taking care of all the children of the country.

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