Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Koreans in Uzbekistan held an event on August 15, the 66th anniversary of Korea's liberation.

Present there were members of the Koreans' organizations and Koreans in Uzbekistan and the charge d' affaires ad interim and staff members of the DPRK embassy in Tashkent.

The participants laid a floral basket and bouquets before the full-length figure portrait of President Kim Il Sung standing together with leader Kim Jong Il at the embassy and paid tribute to them.

At the event speakers said the President led the rigorous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory to achieve the historic cause of Korea's liberation on August 15, 1945.

The President's revolutionary cause is being successfully carried forward by Kim Jong Il, they noted.

He is giving continuity to the Songun revolutionary leadership to build a thriving socialist state true to the intention of the President, they stated.

A photo exhibition and a film show were held on the same day.

The U.S. Regional Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification, the U.S. Western Regional Committee of the Overseas Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and other organizations of Koreans in the U.S. held an event in Los Angeles on August 13 on the same occasion.