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State-level Officials' Table Tennis Tournament under Way in DPRK
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Group preliminaries of the table-tennis tournament, attended by officials from commissions, ministries and national institutions, took place at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium from Dec.19-25.

Qualifiers for the semi-finals, scheduled for January Juche 102 (2013), were selected in the matches.

The qualifiers include officials from the Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Construction and Building-materials, Ministry of Land and Environmental Conservation and the Grand People's Study House.

A sports expert told KCNA that all contestants showed considerable table-tennis technique in the matches.

The tournament will contribute to fanning up sports enthusiasm throughout the country, he added.

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