They included celebration meeting, seminar, lecture meeting, reading session, book exhibition and film show.

Exhibited at their venues were works of leader Kim Jong Il and respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and Korean books.

Such Korean films as "Eternal Treasures in Praise of Sun" were shown.

The rector of Mongolia's "Gor King-Erdene" Institute of Teachers said that Kim Jong Il authored various works to give perfect answers to the questions arising in developing the country by its own efforts. Not only the class called after his august name but also all teachers and students of our institute are deeply studying the Juche idea, the rector added.

The chairperson of the Serbian preparatory committee for celebrating the Day of the Shining Star said that Kim Jong Il is the great leader of the Korean people and an outstanding revolutionary as he had led the Korean revolution to victory and conducted energetic activities for the cause of global independence.

The executive secretary of the Ugandan National Executive Committee of the Pan-African Movement said that Kim Jong Il clearly showed the road ahead of the human cause of independence through his extraordinary ideo-theoretical activities.

The national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria who is co-chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Gathering 2017-Praise to Great Persons of Mt Paektu and chairman of the African Regional Committee of Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People, said that history knows no such great persons as the leaders of the DPRK who received so many precious gifts from prominent personages of different countries.