Put on display in the venue of the rally were works of peerlessly great men President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and photos showing their undying feats.

The participants laid bouquets before their portraits and paid tribute to them.

Kalevi Warman, chairman of the Finnish Communists' League, in a speech made at the rally praised Kim Il Sung as a paragon of ardent patriots and genuine revolutionaries who devoted his all to the country and its people and the world revolution.

The immortal Juche idea fathered by Kim Il Sung serves as valuable guidelines clearly indicating the way to be followed not only by the Korean people but also by the progressive people in their struggle for the cause of global independence and the socialist movement, the chairman said.

Noting that under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, the Korean people are waging a dynamic struggle to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation in 2012, the centenary of birth of Kim Il Sung, he expressed support and solidarity with their just cause.

A message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the rally.