Founding Anniversary of DPRK Observed Abroad

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Personages of various circles in different countries paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions on September 7 and 9 on the occasion of the 78th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The general secretary and the international secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, and personages of various units in China including the World Peace Foundation, the Association for International Friendly Contact and the Beijing Chao Ya International Cultural Exchange Center, and families of those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle laid flower baskets and bouquets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and art pieces depicting them standing together and paid tribute to them.

The general secretary of the New Communist Party of Britain paid a congratulatory visit to the DPRK mission on the same occasion.

Meanwhile, personages of various organizations and institutions of China sent flower baskets to the DPRK mission on the occasion of the 78th birthday of the DPRK. -0-