North Korea celebrates Kim Jong-il's birthday with pool parties and ice sculptures

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Senin, 16 Februari 2015

North Korea celebrates Kim Jong-il's birthday with pool parties and ice sculptures

Senin, 16 Februari 2015 by Madhon News Online

MADHON NEWS, PYONGYANG NORTH KOREA - Monday marks what would be the 73rd birthday of the much beloved North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who passed away in December 2011. So naturally, the country celebrated with a variety of festivities, including the ninth annual Kimjongilia exhibition held in Pyongyang, featuring flowers named after the former dictator.

Other highlights of the revelry included a hydrogymnastics performance, an ice sculpture festival, one hell of a large meeting — and, as a birthday gift to the rest of us, the release of more Kim Jong-un photos. KCNA, North Korea's Central News Agency, published pictures of Kim Jong-un touring various construction sites and taking a ride in his newly remodeled presidential airplane.

Kim Jong-un bows deeply to the embalmed corpse of his father, the late Kim Jong-il, at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Image: RODONG SINMUN/EPA
North Korean officials hold a massive meeting to celebrate the birthday of Kim Jong-il, on Feb. 15, 2015. Preparations for the celebrations started on Feb. 5.
Image: KCNA/EPA
A hydrogymnastics performance to celebrate the birthday of Kim Jong-il.
Image: KCNA/EPA
Women offer flowers at bronze statues of Kim Jong-il and North Korean founder Kim Il-sung on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang.
Image: AP Images/Associated Press
The 19th Kimjongilia exhibition in Pyongyang on Feb. 13, 2015. Kimjongilia flowers, named after Kim Jong-il, are on display to mark the anniversary of his birthday.
Image: Lu Rui/Xinhua Press/Corbis
The 19th Kimjongilia exhibition.
Image: Lu Rui/Xinhua Press/Corbis
North Korean soldiers bow in front of bronze statues of Kim Il-sung (L) and Kim Jong-il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang.
Image: AP Images/Associated Press
The ice sculpture festival celebrating the birthday anniversary of Kim Jong-il in Samjiyon County, Ryanggang Province.
Image: KCNA/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Image: KCNA/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Image: KCNA/Xinhua Press/Corbis
North Koreans hold a rally on Feb. 12, 2015, in front of the home where Kim Jong-il was born in Mount Paektu, North Korea.
Image: KCNA/EPA
And now for the Kim Jong-un photos you've been waiting for.

Kim Jong-un (center) visits the construction site of a new housing complex for scientists in Pyongyang on Feb. 15, 2015.
Image: KCNA/EPA
An ideal candidate for Kim Jong-un Looking at Things.
Image: KCNA/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Image: KCNA/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Left: Air Force One over New York City in 2009. Right: Kim Jong-un's presidential airplane on Feb. 15, 2015.
Image: The White House/AP, KCNA/EPA
Left: U.S. President Barack Obama gazing out a window on Air Force One in 2011.
Right: Kim Jong-un staring out a window on his presidential airplane in February 2015.
Image: Pete Sauza/The White House, KCNA/EPA
Left: Obama meets with baseball great Willie Mays on Air Force One in 2009.
Right: Kim Jong-un talks to his top military aide Hwang Pyong-so aboard his presidential plane in February 2015.

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