They laid bouquets and flowers before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and paid tribute to them.

The chairman and the international secretary of the Finnish Communists' League and the chairman of the Finland-Korea Society said Kim Jong Il enriched the Juche idea founded by Kim Il Sung to provide progressive humankind with the guidelines for their struggle for independence.

The general secretary of the Iceland-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society praised Kim Jong Il as the great revolutionary and peerless patriot who dedicated his whole life to the prosperity of socialist Korea, the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea and the cause of global independence.

The secretary general of the Tanzania-DPRK Friendship Association and other speakers noted Kim Jong Il would be alive in the hearts of humankind forever, lauding his undying exploits for the Korean revolution and the human cause of independence.