Displayed at the venues of the events were photos documenting his noble revolutionary career and immortal feats, and the revolutionary activities of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Also display there were books including works of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu and photos showing the army and people of the DPRK out in the drive to build a thriving socialist nation.

The minister of Women, Children and Social Welfare of Nepal said that HE Kim Jong Il was a outstanding statesman who made a distinguished contribution to defending socialism from the vicious moves of the imperialists and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of the world by pursuing his original Songun politics.

C. P. Mainali, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) and chairman of the Nepali national preparatory committee for celebrating the Day of the Sun and the Day of the Shining Star, praised Kim Jong Il as a great teacher and great man who dedicated himself to the revolution and the people all his life and led the party, army and people to victory for a long period, performing undying feats.

Antti Sika Aho, chairman of the Finland-Korea Society, and Juha Kieksy, chairman of the Finnish National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, lauded Kim Jong Il as the most distinguished thinker and theoretician and statesman produced by the world.

The secretary of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party said that the DPRK is fully displaying its might as an invulnerable socialist fortress thanks to Kim Jong Un, creditable successor to the cause of Kim Jong Il.

Congratulatory messages to Kim Jong Un were adopted at the events held in Nepal and Finland.