They were held by the Socialist Party of Romania, Hanover DPRK Travel Agency of Germany, Bangladesh Institute of the Juche Idea and the Swedish Group for the Study of the Juche Idea.

The director of the travel agency said in a speech that Marshal Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address set it as an important task to build an economic giant and improve the people's living standard.

The director went on:

There appeared in Pyongyang last year Changjon Street, Rungna People's Pleasure Park and other monumental edifices, face-lifting the city.

This was the fruition of Kim Jong Un's wise leadership.

He in his address said this year is the significant year marking the 65th birthday of the DPRK and the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

We will strive to help many Europeans know well about the rapidly developing DPRK.

The chairman of the Bangladesh institute noted that Kim Jong Un said that the new year 2013 is a year of great creations and changes in which a radical turnabout will be effected in the building of a thriving socialist country on the road of the onward march in the new century of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea.

The chairman added:

The reunification of the country is the greatest national task that brooks no further delay, Kim Jong Un stressed, calling for thoroughly implementing the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, the great reunification programmes common to the nation in the new century and milestones for peace and prosperity.

Kim Jong Un expressed conviction that whatever trials and difficulties lie in the way of national reunification, the Korean people will build a reunified thriving nation without fail by concerted efforts of the whole nation.

The participants of the events unanimously said that Kim Jong Un's New Year Address is evoking lively response worldwide and the world is admiring his strong pluck and grit and his personality as a great man.