The participants laid bouquets before the portraits of smiling Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and paid tribute to them.

Dag Norum, chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway, said that the President was the great revolutionary and thinker and theoretician who embarked upon the road of revolution in his teens and fathered the immortal Juche idea.

Vasilka Nikiforova, honorary chief of the Kim Il Sung Library in Sofia, Bulgaria expressed the will to give wide publicity to the undying exploits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the greatness of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

Thomas Losh, secretary general of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and the DPRK and chief of the Group of Youth for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea in Vienna, said the undying exploits performed by the President for the Korean revolution and the cause of global independence would be always remembered by the Korean people and other progressives.

Hessou Kohovi, chairman of the Benin-Korea Amicable Association "Long Live General Kim Jong Il" who doubles as chairman of the Benin National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, said the President liberated Korea from the military occupation by the Japanese imperialists and turned it into an invulnerable socialist fortress independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence.

Congratulatory messages to Kim Jong Un were adopted at the meetings held in Norway, Bulgaria and Austria.