calendar>>July 30. 2009 Juche 98
Death Anniversary of Kim Il Sung Commemorated
Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- Remembrance meetings, seminars, photo exhibitions and film shows were held in Mongolia, Libya, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine between July 6 and 11 on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.

Displayed in the venues were photos on the undying exploits of the President and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Speeches were made there.

The executive chairperson of the Mongolia Mt. Paektu Association for Independent Development said that Kim Il Sung founded the Juche idea, the Songun idea and pioneered the Korean revolution with arms.

He is always alive in the hearts of the progressive humankind for his enormous exploits, the speaker stressed.

The secretary of the association of champions of African unity in Libya praised the President as people's leader who embarked on the road of revolution in his early years to accomplish the historic cause of Korea's liberation and built a socialist system centered on the popular masses in Korea.

The chief of the office for juvenile affairs of the Indonesian Red Cross said that the whole life of Kim Il Sung was that of devoted loving care for the children, the future of the country.

The president of a company in Ukraine highly lauded Kim Il Sung as the great leader and founder of socialist Korea who was born into a patriotic and revolutionary family and devoted all his life to building unique socialism in Korea in which the popular masses are masters of everything and everything serves the people.

Appreciated at the film shows were such Korean films as "The Arch of Triumph".

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