Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Hwang Pyong So, Pak Pong Ju, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior party, state and army officials, the chairman of a friendly party, delegates to the celebrations of the Day of the Sun.

Invited to it were members of congratulatory groups and delegations of overseas Koreans, the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, representatives of foreign embassies and missions of international organizations here, military attaches of foreign embassies and their spouses and other foreign guests.

Kim Yong Nam, Pak Pong Ju, Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Ri Myong Su and O Su Yong made speeches.

The speakers said that the whole life of the President was a sacred revolutionary life of an outstanding genius of the revolution and peerlessly elder statesman who devoted his all to the final victory of Korean-style socialism and global independence and performed immortal feats before the era and history, shouldering the destiny of the country and the revolution and mankind.

They called for holding President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the sun of Juche forever and speeding up the victorious advance of socialism to fulfill the mission and duty as descendants, soldiers and disciples of the great leaders.

They stressed the need to carry through the Juche-based line of national reunification set forth by the great leaders in order to build a reunified power on this land at any cost and carry on the dynamic struggle for the victory of the human cause of independence in firm solidarity with the progressives of the world in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.