Speeches were made at the meetings.

Pham Tat Dong, chairman of the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association, hoped that Kim Jong Il would enjoy good health and lead the struggle of the Korean people for building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation and achieving national reunification to a brilliant victory, adding that they would as ever exert all their efforts to boost the friendly relations between the DPRK and Vietnam.

Songchit Pullarp, chairman of the Organization for the Study of the Juche Idea of Thailand, noted that Kim Jong Il is dedicating himself to the human cause of independence true to the intention of President Kim Il Sung, expressing the determination to invigorate the activity for studying and disseminating the Juche idea and the Songun idea.

The president of an Indonesian company said that thanks to the experienced leadership of
Kim Jong Il, the people of the DPRK are sure to build a thriving socialist nation in the near future.

The chairman of the Mongolian association for the study of Juche Idea-Songun Idea noted that the secret of the fact that the DPRK stands up with dignity against the imperialists lies in the might of the Juche idea, the Songun idea.

In the meantime, seminars were held by the Indian Working Women Society for Study of the Juche Philosophy, the Indian Intellectuals' Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Juche Idea Study Society in Uttar Pradesh State of India and its Meerut branch on Feb. 11 and 12 on the same occasion.

Messages of greetings to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the seminars held by the Indian working women society and the Indian intellectuals' society.