calendar>>June 26. 2015 Juche 104

Congratulatory Visits to DPRK Embassies in Dhaka and Lagos

Pyongyang June 26 (KCNA) -- The chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, the president of the Bangladesh People's League, the chairman of the Bangladesh-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, the chairman of the Bangladesh Institute of the Juche Idea, the chairman of the Bangladesh Group for the Study of the Songun Policy, the First Lady of Nigeria and the high special assistant and special assistant to the Nigerian president visited the DPRK embassies in their countries on June 18 and 19 on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the full-length painting portraying President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and paid tribute to them.

The chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh paid the highest tribute to Kim Jong Il and wished the WPK and the Korean people greater successes in the drive for building a thriving socialist nation and achieving the reunification of the country under the wise guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The high special assistant to the Nigerian president said that the DPRK is demonstrating its might as a politico-ideological and military power which even the U.S. dares not provoke and it would have been unthinkable without Kim Jong Il's exploits. He praised Kim Jong Il as a great master of independent politics.