Displayed in the venues were photos showing his revolutionary life and exploits.

Also on display there were works of Kim Jong Il and books and photos introducing the struggle of the Korean people for building a great and prosperous powerful nation.

Leonid Vinogradov, correspondent of ITAR－TASS in the Maritime Territorial Branch, recollected that Kim Jong Il provided a series of Russia-DPRK summit meetings, thus making a great contribution to the development of the relations between the two countries and ensuring peace and security in Northeast Asia.

As the Korean people hold the dear respected Kim Jong Un, another great general, in high esteem, the good neighborly relations between the two countries will grow stronger and Kim Jong Il's ideal will come true, he stressed.

Maltseva, associate professor at Far Eastern State University, said that Kim Jong Il was a tender-hearted and wise leader of the people who made endless journeys for the happiness of the Korean people.

She went on:

He is always alive in the hearts of hundreds of millions of world people.

Alhassan Mamman Muhammad, chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, praised Kim Jong Il for developing the Workers' Party of Korea, state and the Korean People's Army into an ever-victorious guiding force, an invincible socialist state and a matchless army.

Igwanagu Nicholas, chairman of the Nigerian Group for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, said that Kim Jong Il was the most experienced political elder and peerlessly great man who steered world politics and the development of the international relations.