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Day of Sun, Day of Shining Star to Be Marked in Bangladesh

Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- A Bangladeshi preparatory committee for celebrating the birth anniversaries of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il (the Day of the Sun and the Day of the Shining Star) was inaugurated in Dakha on Jan. 20 at the joint initiative of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh People's League, the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, the Bangladesh Institute of the Juche Idea and the Bangladesh Group for the Study of the Songun Policy.

Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.

The committee decided to hold a meeting, seminar, lecture, film show and other diverse political and cultural events to praise the revolutionary careers of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and exploits of Marshal Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the above-said anniversaries.