Anniversary of founding of Korean Workers' Party celebrated

Описание: (9 Oct 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of monument to founding of Korean Workers' Party
2. Pan across audience
3. State officials seated for ceremony, (from left to right) Premier Kim Yong-il, North Korean deputy leader Kim Yong-nam, minister of the armed forces Kim Yong-chun
4. Choe Pae-bok, alternate member of the political bureau of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, making speech
5. Various of audience
6. Laser showing Korean Workers' Party emblem, zoom out to fireworks
7. Wide of fireworks behind monument the Tower of Juche Idea
8. Close-up of tower with fireworks
9. Audience applauding
10. Tilt down from fireworks to audience
11. Various of fireworks and laser show
12. Audience applauding
13. Pan across fireworks exploding over skyline
14. Fireworks exploding
15. Laser depicting rocket launch, zoom out
16. Wide of tower and fireworks
STORYLINE
North Koreans celebrated 64 years since the founding of the Korean Workers' Party with a fireworks display in the capital Pyongyang on Friday.
APTN North Korea filmed officials, members of the armed forces and a large audience watching the fireworks and laser show, which lasted for approximately 50 minutes.
The show took place on the eve of the official anniversary on Saturday.
Much of the show took place around the Tower of Juche Idea, a monument to the founding of the Korean Workers' Party, which was completed in the year 2000.
The anniversary is being celebrated at a time when international efforts continue to persuade North Korea to return to nuclear disarmament talks.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said on Monday that his government is willing to rejoin the six-nation nuclear talks depending on progress in its negotiations with the United States.
Pyongyang withdrew from the six-party talks after conducting a rocket test in April and a nuclear test in May.
It said at the time it would never return to the talks, which also involve China, Japan, the two Koreas, Russia and the US.
US and South Korean officials said Kim was believed to have suffered a stroke in August of last year.
The reports triggered fears of a succession crisis in the nuclear-armed nation of 24 (m) million, which he rules with absolute authority.
However, the 67-year-old leader appears to have recuperated and remains in charge, according to the US and South Korea.
North Korea is one of the world's poorest nations, with foreign aid diminishing significantly in the past year during the continued standoff over its nuclear programme.
The Korean Workers' Party has been the ruling political party in North Korea since 1945.
Kim Il Sung, the late father of Kim Jong-il and North Korea's founder, was chairman of the party from 1949 until his death in 1994, when he was succeeded by his son.

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