http://www.kcna.co.jp/contents/23.htm#4 Anecdotes about Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- A heavy rain frequently fell on St. Petersburg from some days ago before Kim Jong Il arrived there during his Russian tour last year. Officials who came out to receive him looked up to the sky with concern.
But it did not rain when he laid a wreath, reviewed a guard of honor and visited a museum after arriving there. There was a torrential rain only right after he got on a car.
A cloudy sky began to clear up when he arrived at Lenin Square.
A torrential rain fell again when he boarded a car and headed for the Kirov Factory after going round the statue of Lenin and a metro station.
A Russian official on hand, surprised at the wonders of nature, told him as follows: "Comrade Kim Jong Il, the sun is yours as people say. You seem to let the sun throw its rays, when necessary, while going with it kept in your pocket".
It happened when he visited the Omsk State Science Library named after Pushkin.
Officials of the library, showing him a record card of Jo Ki Chon, a revolutionary poet of Korea, who studied at Gorki Normal College in Omsk in the 1930s, said: Jo Ki Chon was Mayakovski of Korea.
Kim Jong Il said another thinking, saying that Jo Ki Chon was "Pushkin of Korea."
All of them admired him who was well aware not only of the famous writers and poets of Russia but its literature.
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