The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of him.

Harpal Brar, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), said Kim Jong Il was a great leader who devoted his all to the popular masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause and national reunification.

During the most difficult days of the Arduous March, forced march he not only defended socialism but consolidated the DPRK as a politico-ideological and military power and a fortress of socialism, the chairman added.

Ella Rule, vice-chairman and international secretary of the Central Committee of the above-said party, said the Korean people are demonstrating their unshakable will to invariably defend socialism by working innovations in the building of a thriving nation, united close behind the dear respected Kim Jong Un, true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania, stressed the undying feats Kim Jong Il performed for the human cause of independence will shine forever.

The deputy director of the Rabitra Bahtera Pratama Co. of Indonesia praised Kim Jong Il's sacred revolutionary career.

A message to Kim Jong Un was adopted at a seminar in the UK.