The bulletin carried a portrait of the smiling President and an article captioned "Tribute paid to President Kim Il Sung."

The article said:

The people who visit the DPRK can see any time Korean people laying bouquets and paying tribute in reverence to the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill located in the centre of Pyongyang.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il started his annual work with paying tribute to the President.

The endless field guidance tour made by him was filled with his boundless reverence for the President.

Thanks to his immutable will to invariably carry forward and glorify the valuable feats performed by the President the DPRK could win victory in defending socialism in adversity toward the end of the last century and glorify the first decade of the new century with eye-opening feats in building a thriving nation.

His leadership for building a thriving nation has been oriented to most successfully realizing the lifetime desire and ideal of the President.

President Kim Il Sung is always alive enjoying boundless reverence of all people.

The Brazilian Committee for Solidarity with the DPRK and the Group for the Study of Juche Philosophy and Songun Politics of Malta posted articles on internet homepages on Mar. 18 and 19 to mark the Day of the Sun.