The participants laid bunches of flowers before statues of the President in the cities and paid tribute to him before holding meetings.

Speeches were made at the meetings attended by captains and crewmen of the Chinese ship Shun Fa 1 and a Belize-flagged ship.

Speakers recollected the immortal exploits of the President, saying that Day of the Sun is a holiday common to the Korean people and the world progressive people.

The President's exploits will be everlasting in the hearts of the progressive humankind, they added.

They expressed the belief that the revolutionary history of the President will go on thanks to supreme leader Kim Jong Un, who is possessed of the noblest moral sense of obligation.

Letters to Kim Jong Un were adopted there.