Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Events took place in different countries between Dec. 12 and 14 to mark the 20th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army and the 94th birth anniversary of Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese war hero.

They included seminar and book and photo exhibition in Italy, lectures in the Czech Republic and Guinea and a film show in Thailand.

On display in their venues were works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, photos on their immortal exploits and books and photos introducing the Korean people in the efforts to build a prosperous and powerful country and achieve the national reunification.

Mauro Cazadio, general secretary of the Struggle for the Peace and Socialism of Italy, said he pays the highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who performed undying exploits for socialism and human cause of independence by guiding the struggle of the Korean people to victory with his Songun revolutionary leadership.

Banou Keita, chairman of the Guinea-Korea Friendship Association, praised Kim Jong Suk, woman commander of Mt. Paektu, for having reliably ensured the personal safety of the President in the days of anti-Japanese war and the period of building a new country. The Korean people called different regions and units of the country after her august name to hand down her feats to posterity, he said.

Appreciated at the show were "Arms of Korea" and other Korean films.