Present there were Choe Ryong Hae, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Chang Do, chairman of the Korea Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee, officials of the Cabinet, armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, officials and employees of the units to take part in the 17th Kimilsungia Festival, working people in the city, overseas Koreans, Ratna Sari Dewi Sukarno, director of the Dewi Sukarno Office in Japan who doubles as honorary chairperson of the Society for Disseminating and Supporting Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia, and her party and foreign guests.

Kim Yong Jin, vice-premier of the Cabinet, in a report said:

Kimilsungia came into being carrying the august name of President Kim Il Sung, the peerlessly great man, amid the great blessings of all people 50 year ago. This marked a jubilee common to the Korean people and mankind and an event to be specially recorded in the history of world horticulture.

Kimilsungia is the most worthy symbol of glory presented by progressive mankind to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the sun of Juche and tender-hearted father of all people.

Kimilsungia, the flower of the sun, struck its roots in the DPRK and has come into full bloom all over the world for decades thanks to the intense loyalty of leader Kim Jong Il.

The President is always alive in the hearts of the Korean people and all other people as the sun of Juche together with immortal Kimilsungia thanks to Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The reporter called for bringing Kimilsungias and Kimjongilias into fuller bloom with all wisdom and enthusiasm, holding the festivals of immortal flowers with splendor and thus demonstrating before the whole world the noble loyalty of the service personnel and people of the DPRK who are thoroughly implementing the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il without an inch of deflection and without concession.

The DPRK will widely disseminate Kimilsungias and Kimjongilias, treasures common to mankind, through exchange of flowers with peoples of different countries and international flower expos and horticultural expos and boost friendship and solidarity with the world progressives, he said.

He underlined the need to make Kimilsungias and Kimjongilias fully bloom all over the world.