Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- Seminars, photo exhibitions and film shows were held in Russia, Colombia, South Africa, Nepal and Pakistan on the 51st anniversary of Kim Jong Il's start of Songun revolutionary leadership from August 18 to 20.

Displayed in the venues were the photos of Songun revolutionary leadership feats of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Participants of the film shows watched such films of the DPRK as "Reply of Korea".

Dmitri Kostenko, chairman of the Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea, noted at a seminar on his exploits that the Korean people firmly safeguarded socialism despite the worst adversity in the closing period of the last century and they dashed ahead towards the high eminence of the great prosperous powerful nation under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.

Jairo Gonzalez Trujillo, president of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea "Kanggye" of Colombia, stressed socialist Korea will emerge ever-victorious under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The chairman of the Group for the Study of the Progressive Idea of South Africa said at a seminar on General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Respecting the Forerunners of the Revolution Is a Noble Moral Obligation of Revolutionaries" that leader Kim Jong Il successfully succeeded to the revolutionary cause, Songun cause of President Kim Il Sung with the noble sense of moral obligation and has wisely led the struggle for building a thriving socialist nation, the desire of the President, with Songun politics.

The general secretary of the C.C. of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) expressed full sympathy and support for the greatness and validity of the Songun politics.

Congratulatory messages to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the events in Nepal and Pakistan.