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On Friday, a North Korean Foreign Ministry official denied some foreign press reports claiming portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been removed from public offices and schools, calling them a "groundless fabrication."
Ri Gyong-son, deputy director of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Report Bureau, said, "It didn't happen before, and will never happen... The words are an intrigue that the United States and its attaching countries want to overthrow the DPRK."
Ri said, "General Kim Jong-il is the fate of the Korean people and the DPRK's socialism, it is unimaginable that the DPRK people and army can separate their fates from Kim Jong-il."
He added, "It is nothing but stupid and ridiculous acts just like trying to remove the sun from the sky... The adoration for the leader originated from people's life, it will never change."
Some foreign diplomats in Pyongyang and South Korean experts had said previous to this that the removal of Kim's portraits from some public places had begun from Nov. 8-9, and analyzed that this was being done to weaken the cult of personality around the North Korean leader.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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