They included a remembrance meeting and a book and photo exhibition held in Italy and Brazil, a seminar in Ethiopia and a lecture in Thailand.

Displayed at the venues of the events were photos documenting feats of the President, leader Kim Jong Il and Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Also on display were works of the peerless great men of Mt. Paektu and books and photos on the drive of the service personnel and people of the DPRK for building a thriving nation.

The chairman of an Italian committee for remembering President Kim Il Sung said that the President is the founder of socialist Korea who freed the Korean people from the yoke of colonial slavery of the Japanese imperialists and developed the DPRK into the best country centered on the popular masses in the world.

The chief of the Italy-DPRK Association for Friendship and Solidarity paid highest tribute to Kim Il Sung, the eternal President of the DPRK.

The vice-president of the Party for Free Motherland of Brazil praised the noble revolutionary career of the President characterized by his total dedication to the sacred cause for his country and people all his life.

The chairman of the Organization for the Study of the Juche Idea of Thailand and other speakers said that the President fathered the Juche idea and the Songun idea, thus providing the guidelines for accomplishing the human cause of independence and successfully applying it to the revolution and construction.

The President is always remembered by the world progressives desirous of independence as the sun of Juche, they added.