Present there were the captain and crewmen of the Panamanian- flagged ship.

The speakers said that the past 100 days since his demise were the period which showed harmonious whole between the leader and people.

His revolutionary career was a brilliant one of peerless patriot and great man who devoted his all to the country and people and made an immortal contribution to global independence, they said.

A letter to the dear respected Kim Jong Un was adopted there.

Prior to the seminar, they laid a wreath before the portrait of a smiling Kim Jong Il set up in Chongjin City and paid silent tribute to him.