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Day of Shining Star to Be Celebrated in Guinea

Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) -- A Guinean preparatory committee to mark the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (the Day of the Shining Star) was inaugurated with due ceremony at the meeting room of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage on January 30.

Riyad Chaloub, chairman of the Guinean National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.

It set the period from February 1 to 17 as celebration period and decided to organize diverse political and cultural events.