Pyongyang, February 9 (KCNA) -- A national mass literature prize contest is under way in the DPRK on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The Central Committee of the Writers Union of Korea took proper measures for successfully ensuring the contest.

Attending the contest were more than 700 workers, peasants, servicepersons and students in different parts of the country.

During the contest, contributed were more than 750 literary works of various themes and forms.

The literary works will add viability to the rank of the general march dynamically advancing towards a new horizon of the state development under the leadership of the great Party. -0-