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Personages of Bulgaria, Nigeria Pay Congratulatory Visits to DPRK Embassies

Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) ? Bulgarian and Nigerian personages paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK embassies in Dhaka and Lagos on June 4 and 19 on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). They are Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, M. Jahangir Khan, chairman of the Bangladesh Group for the Study of the Songun Policy, Ragib Ahsan Munna, secretary general of the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, and M. M. Alhassan, chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea.

They laid floral baskets before a portrait of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and their full-length picture and paid tribute to them.

The chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea said:

The popular masses are the driving force of the revolution and construction and they have inexhaustible strength and wisdom to push forward the revolution and construction. The benevolent image of Kim Jong Il, who further strengthened the WPK into the party serving the people, will always be remembered by the Juche idea followers of Nigeria.

The noble outlook of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un on the people is being firmly embodied in the activities of the WPK.