Kim Il Sung Youth Honour Prize and Kim Il Sung Children Honour Prize were awarded to exemplary primary (sub-primary) youth league committees, officials and members of the youth league and members of the Korean Children's Union on the occasion of the greatest auspicious April holiday of the nation.

An awarding ceremony took place at the Youth League Hall on April 15.

Kim Il Sung Youth Honour Prize was conferred on 12 primary (sub-primary) youth league committees, 15 youth league officials and members that prepared the youth league organizations as genuine vanguard ranks faithful to the ideas and leadership of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and fully displayed their wisdom, courage and patriotic devotion at every workplace of socialist construction.

Flower baskets in the name of the China Beijing Zhengjie Culture, Science and Technology Co. Ltd., Han Qishou, general manager of the China Hong Kong Xiangtongjieda International Trade Co. Ltd., Zhang Peng, director of the Wen Mai Chinese dissemination process advisory council, Xiang Mingzhong, general manager of the China Dandong Changyuanhao Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd., and Zhang Yunyong, general manager of the Dandong Shengyuan Foodstuff Co. Ltd. were laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on April 15 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.

On the same day, a flower basket in the name of the Nicaraguan embassy in Pyongyang was laid before the statues of the great leaders. 

Celebration meetings took place in Myanmar, Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Sweden, the UK, Austria, Finland and Mexico from April 3 to 12 on the occasion of the 113th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Speeches were made at the meetings attended by political and social figures and other people of those countries.

Personages of the Myanmar Journalist Association, the Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association, the Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and the DPRK said that the ardent reverence for President Kim Il Sung, the peerlessly great man, is growing deeper in all parts of the world with every April holiday as an occasion.

Koreans in Japan significantly celebrated the greatest auspicious April holiday of the nation.

Officials of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) met at the Central Hall of Chongryon in Tokyo on April 14 to lay a flower basket before the portrait of President Kim Il Sung.

Officials of the central leadership bodies of Chongryon, too, laid bouquets at the portrait of the President and paid tribute to him on the same day.

Johnny Hon, co-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, and his party left Pyongyang for home on April 16.

They were seen off by Kang Noul, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, at Pyongyang International Airport. 

The participants in the Ninth April Spring People's Art Festival have given performances in Pyongyang every day.

Pak Thae Song and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and other senior Party and government officials enjoyed the performances together with Pyongyang citizens on April 16.

Families of those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle met at the DPRK embassy in Beijing on April 11 to celebrate the April holiday (birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung).

Present there were families of those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and the DPRK ambassador to China and his embassy staff members.

The participants laid a flower basket and bouquets before the portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and paid tribute to them.

Today, the revolution in construction is an essential prerequisite to implementing the development strategy of the Workers’ Party of Korea for bringing about an epochal change on this land, and the implementation of all important policies of the Party and the state is accompanied by construction in all sectors, units and regions.

It would be no exaggeration to say that construction is the most effective means of expressing politics visually, bringing people closer to civilization and prosperity they dream and rapidly increasing the wealth of the country.

The design sector is urgently required to go ahead of other sectors at present when the scope of construction is steadily expanding and the struggle for comprehensive national rejuvenation is going full steam ahead.

A demonstration of excellent chefs and waitresses staged in several groups as part of the 28th National Cooking Festival revved up the atmosphere of the festival.

The venue of the demonstration was always crowded with students who specialize in culinary art as well as many cooking fans throughout the festival.

According to Kim Yong Il, a member of the jury, the chefs taking part in the demonstration had to prepare dishes chosen by themselves and present them within a given time frame.