Reports and speeches were made there.

Osvaldo Pesce, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Unified Communist Party of Italy, said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il made the WPK hold higher the banner of the idea of Songun, the idea of giving importance to the army. By doing so, he has led the party to demonstrate its might as the guiding force for the cause of Songun that firmly defends its revolutionary and anti-imperialist independent characters and achieves the victory of socialism with arms, the speaker added.

Ramon Jimenez Lopez, president of the Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism, noted that the WPK tracing its origin back to the DIU formed by President Kim Il Sung has led the revolutionary struggle and construction work under the banner of independence, the banner of Juche and the banner of Songun for more than six decades.

Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il the WPK is guiding the people to the future with responsibility for their destiny as the mother party, a mass party that realized the integrated whole of the leader, the party and the mass, he stressed.

The executive chairman of the Mongolian Association for the Study of Juche Idea-Songun Idea said that the reality of the DPRK proves that one can develop when one depends on one's own strength. The DPRK's achievements are ascribable to the correct ideas and theories and the wise leadership, he added.