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Article: Roundup: DPRK attaches great importance to torch relay in Pyongyang
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- April 26, 2008
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Roundup: DPRK attaches great importance to torch relay in
Pyongyang
by Zhang Binyang, Gao Haorong
PYONGYANG, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic
of Korea (DPRK) attaches great importance to the upcoming torch
relay in Pyongyang, a "very important warming-up of the Beijing
Olympic Games," the country's newly-selected Olympic chief has said.
"The torch relay...will help popularize the concepts and spirits
of the Olympics and arouse public attention to the Games," said Park
Hak Seon, chairman of the DPRK's National Olympic Committee.
He made the remarks at a recent meeting with Chinese Ambassador
to the DPRK Liu Xiaoming, one of the many contacts between officials
from the ...