Hessou Kohovi, chairman of the Benin National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and General Kim Jong Il's Works, at the seminar said that the President ushered in a new era of Juche Korea with his profound ideas and theories and gigantic revolutionary practices and performed undying feats which will always go down in the history of the struggle for human liberation, possessed of gifted intelligence, outstanding leadership ability and noble virtues.

Matteo Carbonelli, secretary general of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, lauded the President's life as a history of the legendary great man who saved and protected the destiny of the country and the nation. He is boundlessly revered by the world progressive people, the secretary general added.

Anders Kristensen, chairman of the Denmark－DPRK Friendship Association, noted that the modern history of Korea would have been unthinkable without the President.

Dag Norum, chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway, said that the President was, indeed, a peerlessly great man and the sun of mankind to whom all people look up and praise.

The revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the President was perfectly carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il and is now being inherited and carried to completion by supreme leader Kim Jong Un, the chairman added.