calendar>>December 31. 2014 Juche 103
Kim Jong Il's Demise Anniversary Marked
Pyongyang, December 31 (KCNA) -- The Crimean Association for the Study of the Juche Idea of Russia and Marwan Sudah, chairman of the Arab Committee for Solidarity with Korean People and Supporting the Reunification of Korea, released statements on December 15 and 17 on the occasion of the third anniversary of demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

The Russian organization in its statement said:

The Korean people have held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal father of the nation as he devoted all the efforts to the country and well-being of the people all his life.

He wisely led the Korean people to overcome difficulties and achieve big successes when the country suffered hardships.

Though he passed away, his behests are deeply kept in the hearts of the Korean people.

His august name would be unthinkable apart from the Juche idea. His works on the Juche idea have been widely disseminated to many countries.

He will always be alive in our hearts.

Marwan Sudah noted that Kim Jong Il was a great thinker and theoretician and distinguished statesman who devoted his all to the Korean people and other progressives of the world.

He made immortal contributions to realizing the cause of global independence and turned the DPRK into an invincible military power with nuclear deterrence, Marwan Sudah said, and continued:

HE Kim Jong Un is successfully carrying forward the cause of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The followers of the Juche idea are hardening their resolutions to become castle walls and cornerstones upholding and defending the idea and cause of Kim Jong Un.

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