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Flower baskets sent to statues of great leaders from foreigners and overseas compatriots

Date: 17/02/2025 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

International bodies, foreign organizations and personages, families of those related to the revolutionary activities of President Kim Il Sung and Koreans in China sent flower baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il.

Laid at the statues of the great leaders on February 14 were flower baskets in the name of the Board of Directors of the International Martial Arts Foundation, the German Support Association of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, Honorary Director Qiu Shuibo of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation and its members Svetlana Odintzova, Lin Gennan, Guo Deli, Jia Desheng, Tang Yiming and Cui Yan, Tian Yuanshuang, manager of the Shandong Provincial Rizhao Fengchuan International Mining Trade Co. Ltd. of China, the families of Ryang Song Ryong, Pak Kil Song, Kim Chol and Hwang Paek Ha, Koreans in China related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the family of Kim Sun Ok, a person related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the families of Zhang Wei-hua, Zhou Baozhong, Feng Zhongyun, Chai Shiying, Chen Lei, Jie Qing and Hu Zhenyi, Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Pang Yong Son, vice-chairperson of the Association of Young Korean Nationals in China, Ryang Kum Hae, member of the Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China, the family of Choe Su Jin, a Korean resident in China, Jin Xianghe, general manager of the Tumen City Sanchuan External Economic Trade Co. Ltd., of China, the family of Jin Yongguan, general manager of the Beijing Jinchuan Power Science and Technology Co. Ltd. of China, Piao Shanhu, general manager of Dandong Huixing Economic Trading Co. Ltd. of China, Manager Ri Hwang and Deputy Manager Ri Kil of the Jiangshan Co. Ltd., Phyo Song Ryong, chairman of the Association of Korean Businessmen in China, Kil Kyong Gap, chairman of the Association of Korean Nationals in Shenyang City of China, Jin Nanzhe, manager of the Beijing Jinmeng Future Cultural Media Co. Ltd., Director Kim Chol of the Shenyang Qingping Trade Corporation, Cui Kuizhe, general manager of the Yingkou Shengfeng Commodity Exchange Co. Ltd., and his wife Cui Yuji, Choe Kol, general manager of the Sobaeksu Culture Proliferation Co. Ltd. in Liaoning Province of China, Song Haojie, director of the Hunchun City Ouya Hospital, Li Honglin, general manager of the Shenzhen City Zhongchuan Automatic Equipment Co. Ltd., Kang Yongguo, general manager of the Liaoning Shenghan Trade Co. Ltd., Lu Yongzhe, general manager of the Juncheng Shijia Management and Consultation (Beijing) Co. Ltd. of China, and An Pingnan, representative of the Tianjin Jiujiang Trade Co. Ltd.

On the same day, Choe Ryong Ho, vice-rector of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, laid a flower basket at the statues of the great leaders.

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