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KPA's Birthday Celebrated Abroad
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- Events were held in various countries between April 19 to 23 on the occasion of the 79th birthday of the Korean People's Army.

They included lectures in Sweden and Democratic Congo and reading sessions and film shows in Ethiopia and Russia.

Present there were personages of the Communist Party of Sweden, the Swedish Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association, the Group for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea of Democratic Congo, a branch of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea and a company of Russia and the masses in those countries.

The chief of the Swedish Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said that the KPA won a brilliant victory in the two revolutionary wars and firmly guaranteed the country's security and socialist construction by force of arms, meeting every provocation of the imperialists. The KPA has recorded only victories led by the peerlessly brilliant commanders, he stressed.

He added that under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il the KPA has grown to be transparent follower and reliable defender of socialism and become soldiers on outpost duty making breakthrough of leaping progress and advance in economic construction.

The chairman of the Group for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea of Democratic Congo praised President Kim Il Sung as the invincible and iron-willed commander who founded the Juche idea, the Songun idea soon after he embarked on the road of revolution and led the great anti-Japanese war and the Fatherland Liberation War to victory.

Films shown included Korean films "Fireworks for a Thriving Nation" and "Replay of Korea".

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