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Important Days of DPRK Marked
Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Seminars, lectures and film shows were held in Mongolia, India and Thailand on April 1 and 2 to commemorate the Day of the Sun, the 17th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and the 78th anniversary of the foundation of the heroic Korean People's Army.

Displayed in their venues were photos on the revolutionary history and undying feats of President
Kim Il Sung and books on the Songun leadership exploits of Kim Jong Il.

The executive chairperson of the Mongolian Mt. Paektu Association for Independent Development in her report at the seminar said that the Koreans and the world people hold Kim Il Sung in high esteem as the sun because he brightly showed the road ahead of mankind in the era of independence with the highest level of light, heat and gravitation, properties of the sun.

Kim Il Sung is a great philosopher and the prominent leader who founded the immortal Juche idea and led the DPRK to victory, she said, stressing that he is always alive, enjoying reverence from the world people.

The chairman of the Juche Philosophy Study Committee of India in a lecture noted that the politico-ideological and military technical power of the KPA has been enhanced in every way under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The KPA led by Kim Jong Il will as ever demonstrate its might as the invincible army, he stressed.

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