National Schoolchildren's Festival of Loyalty Opens

Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- The 23rd National Schoolchildren's Festival of Loyalty opened with due ceremony on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il. The festival is to be held, divided into political, art, sports and economic sections. A question-and-answer study contest, art piece contest, sports games and other colorful events are included in the festival. An opening ceremony took place at the Central Youth Hall on Wednesday. Attending the ceremony were officials of the youth league and schoolchildren in Pyongyang City. Mun Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, made a report there. -0-