Official Denies Kim’s Portraits Were Removed
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From Times Wire Reports
North Korea denied reports that some portraits of leader Kim Jong Il had been removed from public places, calling the accounts a U.S. plot to overthrow its government, Beijing’s New China News Agency reported.
“It didn’t happen before and will never happen,” the agency quoted Ri Gyong Son, a North Korean Foreign Ministry official, as saying in Pyongyang. It did not say when the remark was made.
Ri called the reports “an intrigue that the United States and its attaching countries want to overthrow” North Korea’s government, the report said.
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