They included lectures in Guinea, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Italy, round-table talks in Pakistan and Sweden and a lecture and a reading session in Guinea.

On display in the venues of lectures were works of Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and photos showing their exploits.

The director general of the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea said that Kim Il Sung had performed noteworthy exploits in the history of human thought.

The President was the great leader of the cause of global independence, the director general said, adding: He had rendered sincere assistance to the national independence and independent development of many countries and energetically worked for the strengthening and development of the socialist movement and the non-aligned movement.

Kim Il Sung is the founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea demonstrating its dignity as a politico-ideological, military and scientific and technological power, the acting executive secretary of the Ugandan National Women's Council said, adding:

His idea and cause have been steadily carried forward by Kim Jong Il. The reality of the DPRK evidently proves that the revolutionary history of the President continues without letup.

The chief of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Songun Idea in Fermo of Italy described the whole life of the President as a history of legendary great man who saved and defended the destiny of the country and the nation.

The secretary general of the Punjab Provincial Committee of the National Workers' Party of Pakistan and the secretary general of the Lahore Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association stressed that the cause of Kim Il Sung would surely be accomplished by Kim Jong Il.

The chairman of the Communist Party in Sweden and the chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway praised Kim Il Sung as the great revolutionary who devoted all his life to the sacred cause of prosperity and happiness of the country and the people and global independence.

The chairman of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Association of Guinea said that Kimilsungia, flower of the sun, is coming into full bloom all over the world with boundless reverence of all people for the President.

A message to Kim Jong Il was adopted at the lecture in Guinea.