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Updated January 25th, 2020 at 16:36 IST

NKO celebrates New Year with tributes to leaders

North Korea joined in Lunar New Year celebrations on Saturday, beginning with a traditional show of loyalty for the country's former leaders.

NKO celebrates New Year with tributes to leaders
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North Korea joined in Lunar New Year celebrations on Saturday, beginning with a traditional show of loyalty for the country's former leaders.

Citizens laid flowers and bowed at the foot of giant statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il which stand on Mansu Hill, overlooking the capital of Pyongyang,

It's a ritual all over the country for people to give shows of respect to portraits and statues of the Kims on any major anniversary or public holiday.

Unlike most other big dates on the North Korean calendar, authorities do not give credit to Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il, and it is instead recognised as a traditional holiday.

Instead, North Korea organises schoolchildren to go out and play in public places, highlighting the New Year celebrations as Korean folk activity.

But other traditions which still exist in North Korea for the lunar new year, like making rice cake soup, and giving gifts of money to relatives, are usually not given prominence in public.

This year's Lunar New Year comes amid fears of the deadly new virus spreading across China and other parts of the world.

North Korean authorities have not yet announced any impact from the new virus spreading from neighbouring China, although tourists and other visitors have been stopped from travelling from China to North Korea.

 

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Published January 25th, 2020 at 16:36 IST

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