Kim Jong-il's birthday - 'Day of the Shining Star'

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North Korea has celebrated the anniversary of the birthday of Kim Jong-il with a military parade and offering of flowers. It would have been 'The Great Leader's' 70th birthday before he passed away.

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in Politics, on the 16th of February 2012

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An army truck full of flowers on the way to a military parade at the mausoleum in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea) on the Day of the Shining Star, Kim Jong-Il's 70th birthday.

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A soldier keeps watch over the crowd of well-wishers at The Party Foundation Monument on the Day of the Shining Star, Kim Jong-Il's 70th birthday, in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea).

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Flowers laid under a portrait of a beaming Kim Jong-Il at The Party Foundation Monument on the Day of the Shining Star, Kim Jong-Il's 70th birthday, in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea).

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The public and the military show their respects at a portrait of a beaming Kim Jong-Il at The Party Foundation Monument on the Day of the Shining Star, Kim Jong-Il's 70th birthday, in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea).

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Flowers laid at The Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on the Day of the Shining Star, Kim Jong-Il's 70th birthday, in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea).

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A display showing North Korean technological achievement (earth-orbiting satellites, machine tool producing machines etc.) at the Kimjongilia flower exhibition in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea) on the Day of the Shining Star.

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