Thursday, 6. February 2003
Topic: - on February 6, 2003 at 4:44:11 PM CET
Soldiers pot plants amid nuclear crisis
While the world wonders whether North Korea is trying to develop nuclear weapons, a team of North Korean soldiers has nurtured more than 1,000 perennial begonias named after the country's leader, Kim Jong-il.
North Korea's official KCNA news agency said on Thursday the soldiers from a defence ministry hothouse put on the "kimjongilia" flower show this week as a tribute to Kim, whose 61st birthday falls on February 16.
"Put on display were over 1,000 potted kimjongilias cultivated with care by servicemen of the Korean People's Army in profound reverence for the supreme commander," it said.
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