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Entire family of Kim Jong-un's uncle executed in North Korea : reports

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New reports are suggesting the entire family of Kim Jong-Un's uncle, who was executed in December, were also killed in an attempt to "clamp down on mutiny".

Jang Song Thaek, 67, was sentenced to death on December 12 after being accused of attempting to dethrone his nephew in an alleged military-backed coup.

Yonhap News Agency is now claiming all of Jang's direct relatives were called to the capital and executed.

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Jang Song Thaek (left) with his nephew and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un before his execution. Photo: AP.

"Extensive executions have been carried out for relatives of Jang Song Thaek," a source told the paper.

"All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children."
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According to the paper, Jang's sister, her husband and ambassador to Cuba, and the ambassador to Malaysia were killed.

Sons, daughters and grandchildren of Jang's two brothers were also reportedly killed.

"Some relatives were shot to death by pistol in front of other people if they resisted while being dragged out of their apartment homes," a source said.

Others have reportedly been spared in 'the purge of the Jang Song-thaek people' but sent to remote villages so that "no traces of [Jang] be left".
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The reports come as North Korea's top military body urged an end to all hostilities in an open letter to South Korea sent on the order of leader Kim Jong-Un.

"What is important for paving a wide avenue for mending North-South relations is to make a bold decision to stop all hostile military acts, the biggest hurdle stoking distrust and confrontation," the letter from the National Defence Commission said.
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Superman North Koreans!

Report: North Korea claims it landed man on sun

This might be the most amazing feat in human history.

According to Tweak Town, North Korea has claimed it landed a man on the sun.

As in the star of our solar system. As in the massive (more than 100 times the size of Earth) ball of thermonuclear fusion that lights our planet, the one that burns at nearly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Obviously this is impossible, but North Korea, ever outsmarting science, found a workaround: Send 17-year-old astronaut Hong Il Gong to the sun at 3 a.m., when it's dark out! Because that will protect him from a massive ball of fire.

A North Korean central news anchorman said during a live broadcast: "We are very delighted to announce a successful mission to put a man on the sun. North Korea has beaten every other country in the world to the sun. Hung Il Gong is a hero and deserves a hero's welcome when he returns home later this evening."
It only took Gong about four hours to make it there and he is expected back this evening, where he'll be greeted by his uncle and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. He also is bringing home samples of sun spots as a souvenir.

I guess they don't have T-shirt stands on the sun. Darn.

http://ktar.com/265/1694729/Report-North-Korea-claims-it-landed-man-on-sun

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/60693
 
like ancient China, south korea going to get it soon from kim
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Family of Kim Jong-Un's executed uncle are 'dragged out of their homes and shot' as North Korean dictator's purge continues
Children, brothers and grandchildren of Jang Song-Thaek said to be dead

South Korean news agency reporting 'purge of entire family'
Executions mean 'no traces of Kim Jong-Un's uncle will be left'

The direct relatives of the executed uncle of Kim Jong-Un have been put to death upon the orders of the North Korean leader, it has been reported.

Jang Song-Thaek's children, brothers and grandchildren have been condemned to death, according to media reports in South Korea.


According to newspaper Chosun Ilbo, Ri Yong-ho, Kim Yong-chun, U Tong-chuk, and Kim Jong-gak, all part of his father Kim Jong-il's inner circle, were handpicked to groom the 31-year-old leader, but have since disappeared or been demoted.

As well as his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, other high-ranking members of the military have been purged, including three defence ministers and three chiefs of the army's general staff.

In August last year, members of a female musical group, Unhasu Orchestra — which included his ex-girlfriend — were reportedly publicly machine-gunned apparently for watching pornography and filming themselves naked.

There are said to have been between 40 to 80 public mass executions in North Korea in 2013.

Sources told the Yonhap News Agency it is unclear exactly when the family members were killed, but they are believed to have been put to death after Jang's execution on December 12.

'Some relatives were shot to death by pistol in front of other people if they resisted while being dragged out of their apartment homes,' a source told Yonhap.

Among those allegedly executed were Jang's sister Jang Kye-Sun, her husband and Ambassador to Cuba Jon Yong-Jin and Jang's nephew and Ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong-Chol, as well as his two sons.

The children and grandchildren of Jang's two brothers are also said to have been killed.

One source told the news agency, which is publicly funded and has close links to the South Korean government: 'All relatives of Jang have been put to death, including even children.'

Another source said: 'The executions of Jang's relatives mean that no traces of him should be left.

'The purge of the Jang Song-thaek people is under way on an extensive scale from relatives and low-level officials.'

The family were recalled to the Pyongyang area of the country by Ministry of State troops in early December before being killed, sources said.

Some relatives by marriage, including the wife of the Malaysian ambassador, are said to have been spared from execution, and instead have been sent to remote villages with their families, sources have said.

Yonhap's report has yet to be corroborated but in North Korea a culture of 'guilt by association' has prevailed for years with family members of those convicted of crimes facing severe punishment, even death, for decades.

Kim Jong-Un's former mentor Mr Song-Thaek was accused of a number of crimes against the state.

They included plotting a coup, misappropriating resources, womanising, abusing his position of power and 'dreaming different dreams' to the regime.

North Korea stunned the world by announcing the execution of the man once seen as the dictator's political regent.

His death marks the biggest political upheaval since the 30-year-old inherited power.

The Kim dynasty has ruled the isolated country for more than six decades.

Mr Song-Thaek is the husband of Jong-un's biological aunt, the sister of his father Kim Jong-Il.
 
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List of Jang's Men Distributed Abroad

Koo Jun Hoe | 2014-01-31 18:28

North Korea recently distributed a list to overseas diplomatic posts of the names of cadres executed in the aftermath of the purge of former Vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission Jang Song Taek, a Japanese daily alleged on the 31st.

Citing a "number of inside sources," the report carried by Yomiuri Shimbun claimed that the list of 16 of Jang’s closest associates included high-ranking cadres Ri Ryong Ha and Jang Su Gil, who are said to have been executed in November, and Party Central Committee officials Pak Chun Hong and Ryang Chong Song.

Embassies and other diplomatic organs throughout China, Europe and Southeast Asia were forwarded the list in early January, the report claimed.

However, allegedly absent from it were former Ambassador to Sweden Pak Kwang Chol, nephew of Jang Song Taek and former Ambassador to Malaysia Jang Yong Chol, North Korea’s deputy delegate to UNESCO Hong Yong and Jang’s brother-in-law and former Ambassador to Cuba Jong Yong Jin. All were spotted returning to Pyongyang shortly after the purge and execution of Jang, fueling rumors of a sweeping purge.

According to the article, the 16 were executed for “disloyalty to First Chairman of the National Defense Commission Kim Jong Eun.”

The report has not been independently verified.


 

Inter-Korean Trade in Kaesong Doldrums

Kang Mi Jin | 2014-02-03 19:27

Trade between North and South, which has been steadily decreasing for a number of years, declined by a dramatic 42% last year to reach an 8-year low.

According to the Ministry of Strategy and Finance and Korea Customs Service, trade between the two Koreas totaled $520.6m (exports) and $615.2m (imports) in 2013, a gross total of $1.1b. This is the lowest figure since 2005.

Analyses say the protracted closure of the Kaeseong Industrial Complex over five months in mid 2013 is the principal reason for the record fall in receipts.

Trade worth just $520,000 took place in May last year, and an absolute low of $23,000 was recorded in June. Thereafter, following the restart of Kaesong, monthly trade was restored to $106,000,000 in November and $170,000,000 in December.


 

Kim Kyong Hui now in Poland, says newspaper

Report, based on unnamed source, latest in string of rumors regarding purged uncle's wife

January 31st, 2014
Kang Tae-jun

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Kim Kyong Hui, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s aunt, left for Europe after the execution in North Korea of her husband Jang Song Taek, the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursday.

An unnamed source told the Yomiuri that Kim Kyong Hui went to Switzerland after the execution of Jang in December and has since moved to Poland.

In Poland, Kim Pyong Il, step-brother of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il – Kim Kyong Hui’s brother – has been working as diplomat since 1998.

Kim Kyong Hui’s lack of public appearances in recent months has led to widespread speculation. She appeared in public in Pyongyang during a military parade on the 65th anniversary of the North Korean regime’s founding last September 9, and the next day on a musical representation of the DPRK army, but not since.

News report in early January said that her alcoholism had become worse, and that she went to Russia for foot surgery between late September and early October.

An unnamed source told New Focus, a South Korean news site, that Kim may have been deported or fled due to what has happened to Jang Song Thaek’s family members recently in North Korea.

Late last week, it was reported that North Korea, by order of Kim Jong Un, had purged Jang’s whole family.

According to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, the older sister of Jang Song Taek and her husband – the DPRK ambassador to Cuba, as well as his nephew, ambassador to Malaysia, and his sons were recalled to Pyongyang in December and killed.

Meanwhile, the National Intelligence Agency in South Korea said it does not have data on the presence of Kim Kyong Hui in Europe.


 

Pyongyang train station to be refurbished – Railroad Ministry

1950s era train station to be refurbished, Railroad Ministry says


February 4th, 2014
Kang Tae-jun

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North Korea is poised to refurbish and upgrade the central Pyongyang train station, the Japan-based pro-DPRK outlet Choson Sinbo reported on January 21.

Kim Soon Ok, director of North Korea’s Railroad Ministry (철도성) told Choson Sinbo that the North Korean government will repair and improve Pyongyang station in order to make it more modern.

Kim said that the main building at the station would be improved to meet the “trend of new era”, adding that North Korea was ready to improve other train stations across the nation.

Despite the news, a source in Pyongyang on Monday told NK News that no construction work was yet visible at the station.

Pyongyang station was built in 1958 with an area of 3,500㎡. It has four stories including one basement and is the main station foreigners visiting the city arrive in.

“Reunification Station” near Kaesong is one of North Korea’s most modern stations and was built during the Sunshine era when ties between the two Koreas were at their closest.

North Korea has been modernizing infrastructure in Pyongyang for several years. Kim Jong Il promised North Korean citizens that the DPRK would be a “strong and prosperous” state by 2012, founding leader Kim Il Sung’s 100 anniversary.

Picture: Ray Cunningham

 

Public inquiry into N. Korean rights violations nears end

Chairman of investigation calls inquiry findings 'shocking,' says they moved committee to tears

February 4th, 2014
Hamish Macdonald

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The Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is nearing completion of its final report on following an especially public process – and its chairman has called the results shocking and moving.

Mandated “to investigate the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights” in North Korea, the COI has been collecting evidence and testimony since early 2013.

The final report is due to be presented to the Human Rights Council on March 17 and chairman Michael Kirby said that he hopes “the international community will accept what we say as being well-founded in fact and evidence and well-founded in international law.”

COLLECTING EVIDENCE

The full mandate of the COI is extensive and instructs the body to investigate a litany of human rights violations in relation to prison camps, torture, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, etc.

Apart from drawing upon what Kirby called “a great mass of information” from within the UN bodies and from previous reports from the special rapporteurs, the COI will be relying heavily on the testimony of North Korean defectors.

More than 280 victims and witnesses of human rights violations in the DPRK spoke to the commission during its investigations in London, Seoul, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo.

Kirby has already spoken publicly about the effects that the defector testimony has had on him and his colleagues, telling the UN General Assembly in October that the stories “shocked our senses and moved us, at times, to tears.”

The inquiry is not only looking into a wide range of violations but is investigating their occurrences over a large period of time, for instance, in relation to violations to the right to food.

“What we have to do is measure what has been done by North Korea over the last 20 years in particular and especially during the period described variously as the ‘Great Famine or the ‘Arduous March,’” Kirby said.

“That is one of the primary duties of the government of every country to feed its population and to make sure people don’t starve to death,” Kirby said, concluding that, “there is quite a lot of evidence suggesting shortfalls in that respect which continue into the present time.”

The commission is also relying on the testimony of experts and academics that have spent their careers studying North Korea as well as the use of satellite imagery.

PUBLIC RESULTS

North Korea’s poor human rights record is recognized in the international community, and has been the subject of continual condemnation and more than 20 UN reports.

A significant difference between this inquiry and previous ones is the way in which much of the evidence has already been presented to the international community given that the hearings were made public and the subsequent videos and transcripts were published online.

“What was different about the COI was that we decided from the beginning that we would embark on a process of public hearings that is not the usual way by which commissions of inquiry of the United Nations operate,” Kirby said.

The decision was taken by the COI as “it permits the international community to assess the witnesses and to make their own assessments as to whether they are telling the truth,” Kirby said.

“The testimony of the individuals is often so stark, so vivid, so dramatic and so shocking that it effectively appeals to the government of the DPRK to respond and to the international community to make sure that they do respond,” Kirby added.

North Korea has already responded in part by saying evidence collected is “fabricated and invented by forces hostile” to the DPRK and also labeled the defectors taking part in the hearings “human scum.”

However, Kirby said of the defectors: “I believe overwhelmingly they emerge as truthful, courageous and determined witnesses who are seeking to improve the human rights situation in North Korea.”

Picture: UN Geneva, Flickr Creative Commons


 

North Korea fails to qualify for Winter Olympics


Head of People's Assembly still plans on attending Games' opening


February 4th, 2014
Joseph Sugarman

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For the first time in 12 years, no North Korean athlete has qualified for the Winter Olympics, though they nonetheless plan to send a representative to the Games this month in Sochi, Russia.

North Korean athletes have participated in the Winter Olympics six times since the Innsbruck Games in 1966. These are the first Games since the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, that the North Korean team will have missed.

Also, the Yonhap News Agency quoted an official from the International Olympic Committee who said that no athlete from the North would receive a special “wild card” granted by international sporting organizations.

Olympic wild cards were developed so that less-developed nations’ could participate in the international sporting event.

Nonetheless, however, the DPRK is reportedly intent on sending a high profile representative to Sochi, Russia, where this year’s Winter Olympics will take place later this month. Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly and the de-facto head of state, is planning on attending the Games this year.

According to the DPRK’s Ambassador to Russia, Kim Yong Jae, “under the set schedule (Kim) is due to be there on February 6-8. The plan includes a meeting with the Federation Council chairperson, (Valentina Matviyenko).”

The opening ceremony will take place February 7.

However, at present it was not clear whether the Russian government would accept Kim’s presence, the Asia Times reported. Customarily, only those heads of state representing nations taking part in the Games take part in the opening ceremony.

North Korea first participated in the Olympics at the Winter Games in 1964 in Innsbruck, Austria, eight years before they participated in their first Summer Games in Munich. Their appearances in the Winter Olympics have been inconsistent, as they have missed five of 12. They have medaled twice at the Winter Olympics, with a silver in speed skating in 1964 in Innsbruck, and a bronze in short track speed skating in the 1992 Games in Albertville, France.

Their participation in the Summer Games has been more regular and noteworthy, having medaled 47 times, including 12 golds, and participating every year since 1972 save 1984 and 1988.

They boycotted the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles along with their allies in the Communist Bloc, and the 1988 Games taking place in Seoul, capital of their rival South Korea, after their endeavor to co-host those Games was denied.

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Kim should visit China, explain execution of Jang: source


Unconfirmed report echoes earlier Chinese editorials for Kim to visit Beijing

February 4th, 2014
Kang Tae-jun

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A major Chinese internet portal claims that China has called on Kim Jong Un to visit China as soon as possible and for North Korea to explain the recent execution of Jang Song Thaek.

“First-Secretary Kim Jong Un should visit as soon as possible”, an unnamed Chinese government official was quoted as saying in the report, which was published by popular Chinese internet portal Sohu.com.

The report added that Beijing wanted North Korea to explain the extreme events surrounding the trial and execution of Jang Song Thaek and for Pyongyang to confirm that Sino-DPRK relations would not be negatively affected by Jang’s demise.

Although the report could not be verified, it echoes a December editorial in the Communist Party’s Global Times which, in the wake of Jang’s purge, argued that Kim Jong Un should visit China as soon as possible to assure Beijing that he would be able to keep the country stable.

Since Jang’s execution, China has showed signs of uneasiness about North Korea: A subsequent editorial in the Global Times published after Jang’s surprise execution argued that China needs to be strong and decisive when dealing with North Korea.

The editorial also pointed out that Jang’s execution had caused relations between China and North Korea to deteriorate and that Chinese public opinion of North Korea had worsened as a result.

Jang Song Thaek was “eliminated” from the Korean Workers’ Party in early December and his “group” purged for reasons including corruption, factionalism, drug abuse, anti-state activities and womanizing.

China’s foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei initially dismissed the purge as an “internal affair,” telling reporters on December 9 that Beijing would “stay committed to maintaining traditionally friendly relations with the DPRK.”

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S. Korea preparing for war, DPRK ambassador to Russia tells press

Ambassador warns S. Korea could spark "full-fledged war"


February 4th, 2014
Oliver Hotham

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South Korea is not responding to North Korea’s efforts for peace and is preparing for nuclear war, North Korean ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jae said on Tuesday.

Speaking to a press conference in Moscow, the ambassador said that despite the DPRK’s efforts to push for peace, South Korea was still going ahead with annual joint Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises which Pyongyang sees as preparations for an invasion of the North.

“Now that important proposals on stopping all slander campaigns have been published, North Korea has unilaterally stopped all campaigns and other actions that could irritate the South Korean administration,” the ambassador said in comments reported by Russia’s Interfax news.

He insisted that North Korea “has made a decision to be the first to take practical steps to fully stop all hostile military and other actions in the air, at sea, and on the military demarcation line, including in the problem areas around five islands in the Yellow (West) Sea”.

In particular the ambassador called on South Korea to halt its annual joint military drills with the United States, saying “we consider these exercises to be aggressive and dangerous because they from beginning to end constitute preparations for a nuclear war against North Korea and are conducted under the guise of defensive and annual training exercises.”

Similar to remarks made by other North Korean ambassadors to media in recent weeks, Kim warned that “the current situation on the Korean Peninsula is such that even an accidental armed conflict could cause a full-fledged war”.

SIX PARTY PLEDGE

The ambassador also used the press conference to explain North Korea was not opposed to the resumption of Six Party Talks on the denuclearization on the Korean peninsula, saying that ”we are not opposed to the launch of negotiations and a genuine discussion of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the region”.

“We are concerned that the hope for a resumption of the six-nation negotiations is fading away because of the invariably hostile U.S. policy towards our country; they are holding a policy of sanctions, thrusting unilateral dismantlement of the nuclear program on us and setting unfounded preconditions,” he was reported as saying by Interfax news.

“We do not object to the resumption of the negotiations but until the U.S. demonstrates its readiness to stop its hostile policy towards the DPRK, which is the primary source of the problem of the Korean Peninsula, we will never make unilateral progress on that”.

At the conference Ambassador Kim praised DPRK-Russian relations and economic co-operation, citing the successful construction and opening of a railroad between Rajin (North Korea) and Hassan (Russia) and the building of gas and oil pipelines as evidence of the two nations’ positive ties.

Russia has in the past expressed interest in seeing a prompt resumption of the Six Party Talks, with President Vladimir Putin using a November 2013 visit to South Korea to call for their resumption “without preconditions”.

Putin made the suggestion during an in interview with the Korean Broadcasting Service (KBS), pointing out that the DPRK and Russia traditionally had good relations, which he described as an “advantage”.

“If we constantly set preconditions for the start of talks, they may never begin,” Putin said, “It seems to me that it would be better if the talks resumed and all the participants returned to the negotiating table and then resolved the issues that had brought them together”.

Russia and North Korea do have significant shared business interests, and Russia has in the past provided North Korea with diplomatic support, speaking out against the continued American presence on the Korean peninsula last year.

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National Symposium Held to Glorify Exploits of Kim Jong Il

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PYONGYANG, February 4 23:15 KST (KCNA) — A national symposium took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Tuesday to deeply grasp and add luster to the imperishable exploits performed by leader Kim Jong Il for modeling whole society on Kimilsungism.

Read at the symposium were papers explaining and proving the undying exploits performed by Kim Jong Il for the development of the ideological work of the Workers' Party of Korea and the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, who provided the banner of eternal victory of the Juche revolution by setting it as the supreme programme of the party to model whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Among them were papers dealing with tasks and ways for thoroughly establishing the monolithic leadership system of the WPK.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Rodong Sinmun Kim Il Ryong said the proclamation of the programme for modeling whole society on Kimilsungism marked an epochal occasion in providing the fundamental guarantee for firmly ensuring the party's unitary leadership of the ideological work and a historic event which brought about a revolutionary turn in improving and rounding off the party's ideological work system and propaganda and agitation method.

Cha Yong Myong, rector of Kim Il Sung Higher Party School, clarified that Kim Jong Il brought up all the service personnel and people to be strong in ideology and faith by giving a definite priority to the ideological education and brought about a great leap forward and innovations in each age of revolution by dynamically conducting the political work to give fullest play to the mental power of all the service personnel and people.

Thae Hyong Chol, president of Kim Il Sung University who is also minister of Higher Education, referred to the exploits Kim Jong Il performed by providing the most perfect idea and theory in our era and strong political ranks, invincible military power and powerful material and economic guarantee for imbuing whole society with one idea.

Jon Ha Chol, director of an institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, said the great cause of imbuing whole society with the revolutionary idea of the leader has been steadily carried forward and developed in depth in the new century of Juche, too, to bring about unprecedented changes in the drive for building a thriving nation and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche, adding this would have been unthinkable without the outstanding and tested leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Ryu Yong Sik, vice-director of the Political Bureau of the Cabinet, said: It is necessary to thoroughly establish the unitary leadership system of Kim Jong Un in order to firmly ensure the accomplishment of the cause of modeling whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Present at the symposium were Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Yong Jin, vice-premier of the Cabinet, officials of the party, administrative and working people's organizations of national level and in Pyongyang City, officials in the fields of science, education, literature and art and media, those in the field for preserving revolutionary relics and those of the organs for training party cadres.


 

KCNA Article

Silver Sculpture, Gift to Kim Jong Il


PYONGYANG, February 4 17:27 KST (KCNA) — On display at the International Friendship Exhibition House is a silver sculpture "Tiger", which was presented to leader Kim Jong Il by the president of Russian International Charity Fund "Protectors of Arts for the Century" on the occasion of his birthday.

Through his visits to the DPRK, the president was deeply moved by Kim Jong Il's personality.

The president prepared the gift, symbolic of bravery and wisdom, with sincerity in February Juche 96 (2007).

It is one of the gifts he presented to Kim Jong Il with deep reverence for him.

Seen on the sculpture is a message wishing Kim Jong Il good health.


 
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Homage Paid to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il

PYONGYANG, February 4 18:39 KST (KCNA) — The participants in the national meeting of sub-workteam heads in the field of agriculture on Tuesday visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il lie in state.

They paid tribute to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

At the immortality halls they paid homage to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

They went round the halls where the orders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il received are on display in reflection of the Korean people and the world progressives' profound reverence for them and halls that house cars, an electric car, boat and train coaches used by them during their field guidance and foreign tours till the last moments of their lives.


 
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