PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (Reuters) — North Korea held an international figure skating festival on Monday (February 15) in Pyongyang to celebrate the 74th birth anniversary of its late leader Kim Jong Il. Video provided by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed the opening ceremony of the festival where people watched performances by figure-skaters from North Korea, Russia, Latvia, Belarus and Canada. The 24th Paektusan Prize International Figure-skating Festival is scheduled […]





