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Participants in 8th Pyongyang Int'l Sci-Tech Book Fair Visit Mangyongdae
Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- The participants in the 8th Pyongyang International Science and Technology Book Fair visited Mangyongdae.

They went to the old home of President Kim Il Sung where they looked round historic relics, being briefed on the fact that the President was born in that thatch-roofed house and nurtured a noble aim of revolution spending his childhood.

Georgii Toloraya, head of the delegation of the Russkiy Mir Foundation of Russia, said:

I had the honor to visit Mangyongdae, the sacred place of the sun.

Comrade Kim Il Sung was born in a patriotic and revolutionary family.

It was thanks to Kim Il Sung, the greatest man recognized by the world, that the DPRK could demonstrate its might as a country of Juche.

Meanwhile, the participants visited the Tower of the Juche Idea, National Gifts Exhibition House, Party Founding Memorial Tower and other places and enjoyed the grand gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang".

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