Lots of working people, youth and students and service personnel paid their respects to the statues of the President and the Chairman and the portraits bearing their smiling images on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang and in other parts of the country.
A basket of flowers sent by Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, was seen in front of the statues of the great leaders.
Floral baskets were laid at their statues in the names of Party, government and military organs, public organizations, ministries, national agencies, units of the Korean People’s Army and the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces, and institutions, factories and enterprises at all levels in Pyongyang.
Art performances were given in Pyongyang and local areas, adding colours to the festive mood.
At the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, the Wangjaesan Art Troupe gave a dance performance.
The National Acrobatic Troupe gave an acrobatic performance at the Pyongyang Circus Theatre to give joy and optimism to working people, youth and students.
Artistes, schoolchildren and other children in South Hwanghae and South Hamgyong provinces put on stage a variety of music and dance pieces.
Youth and students celebrated the folk holiday while doing kite-flying, top spinning, shuttlecock game, rope-skipping and other folk games at Kim Il Sung Square and plazas of the Arch of Triumph, Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, Sinuiju, Kanggye and elsewhere.
With national sentiment and flavour of the Koreans overflowing throughout the country, working people from all walks of life spent a good time, having photos taken, singing folk songs, dancing and playing yut (four stick) game, janggi (Korean chess) and other folk games in streets, villages and families.
Okryu and Chongnyu restaurants and Pyongyang Noodle House in Pyongyang, Sinhung Restaurant in Hamhung, Okkye Restaurant in Haeju and other public service outlets across the country served traditional foods including Pyongyang cold noodles, rice-cake soup and mung-bean pancake.
Working people had a good time at the Mangyongdae Amusement Park, Munsu Water Park, People's Open-air Ice Rink and Rungna Dolphinarium.
The Garment Institute and Korean costume shops in Pyongyang brought out beautiful and elegant national costumes to mark the folk holiday.
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