They included a delegation of the Japanese National Liaison Council of Societies for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism for celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of the WPK led by Takao Kamakura, director of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, a delegation of the Nepal Journalist Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics led by Chairman Manju Ratna Sakya, a delegation of the Slovak Association for Supporting the Juche Idea led by Chairman Ivan Draxler, a delegation of the Group of Youth for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea in Vienna, Austria led by Chief Thomas Losh, an Italian delegation of the Milano Center for the Study of the Juche Idea, Henry Masiko, director general of the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, Edmond Jouve, director-general of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, Matteo Carbonelli, its secretary general, and Garib Newaz, chairman of the Bangladesh Self-Reliance Research

Centre.

Arriving earlier were Andre Lohekele Kalonda, secretary general of the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, and his party.