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Greatness of Kim Il Sung Praised
Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Remembrance meetings and a film show took place in Romania, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Finland and a tree planting in Syria on July 5 and 8 to commemorate the 16th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.

The participants of the film show watched Korean film "The Tower of the Juche Idea".

Speeches were made at the meetings.

Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, said that the Korean people are still now holding Kim Il Sung in high esteem as their eternal leader. The benevolent image of the President will remain long in the hearts of the progressive mankind, he added.

The chief of the Kim Il Sung Library at Mjumbe University in Morogoro of Tanzania stressed that the enormous feats performed by the President for the sacred cause of prosperity of the country and the nation and global independence in his lifetime would be remembered for all ages.

Nigatu Dagnachew, chairman of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea, and other speakers said that Kim Il Sung's reminiscences "With the Century" serves as a precious textbook helping the younger generation of Ethiopia get better understanding of his greatness.

Meanwhile, Antti Sika Aho, chairman of the Finland-Korea Society, released a statement on July 8 on the same occasion.

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