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Pencil drawing festival opens in celebration of birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il

Date: 11/02/2026 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

The 11th National Pencil Drawing Festival opened in Pyongyang in celebration of the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Presented to the festival are more than 390 pencil drawings on diverse themes and of various forms created by artists, amateurs and schoolchildren in different parts of the country.

On display at the festival venue are drawings dealing with the noble revolutionary career and immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il.

Among the exhibits are drawings of people enjoying new life and new civilization to their heart's content in the picturesque villages, precious fruits of the regional development policy, which have been built all over the country year after year.

There are also exhibits showing the revolutionary spirit and indomitable struggle of the people and service personnel out in the general advance toward the glorious Party Congress and the absolute weaponry of the armed forces of the DPRK gaining their fame as the most powerful revolutionary army.

An opening ceremony took place at the Pyongyang International House of Culture on February 9.

Present there were Ri Yong Nam, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, officials concerned, creators, and working people, youth and students in Pyongyang.

Sung Jong Gyu, minister of Culture, made an opening address.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round the exhibition hall.

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