Present there were Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, senior party and government officials, the chairman of a friendly party, leading officials of armed forces organs, members of the party central leadership organ in Pyongyang, officials of the Party Central Committee, armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions, teaching staff and students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School, officials of institutions and industrial establishments in Pyongyang city, labor innovators, bereaved families of the revolutionary martyrs, congratulatory groups and delegations of overseas Koreans and compatriots and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of t

he Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.

Present on invitation were foreign diplomatic envoys and representatives of international organizations and military attaches here and other foreign guests.

Kim Yong Nam made a report.

He said that April 15 when the President was born is the greatest auspicious day of the nation unprecedented in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years and a revolutionary holiday common to humankind on which they acclaimed the illustrious great man.

The reporter continued:

Comrade Kim Il Sung is the sun of Juche who pioneered and led to victory the new era of history which advances under the banner of independence.

He resolutely rejected flunkeyism, dogmatism and dependence on foreign forces since the first day of his revolutionary struggle and paved the unique way of carving out the destiny of the country and people independently and creatively and thus brought about an unprecedented great change in the revolution and construction with transparent faith in independence and pluck.

By founding the Juche idea, the great leader effected a change in the mental and moral life of humankind and put the trend of history on the orbit of independence. This revolutionary exploit of the President will shine long along with the popular masses' cause of independence.

He is a peerlessly elder statesman who set an example of the times by which the revolution and construction are advanced on the principle of independence, and a peerlessly great man and founding father of socialist Korea who consolidated the eternal cornerstone for the completion of the cause of independence of the popular masses, the socialist cause.

He built the revolutionary party of Juche type, the state and the army and provided a powerful political weapon for the revolution and construction.

He is the eternal father of the nation who devoted his all to the accomplishment of the cause of national reunification for the complete independence and sovereignty of the country and the nation and the outstanding leader of the world revolution who made undying contributions to realizing the human cause of independence.

His revolutionary idea and cause of independence have been given a steady continuity under the guidance of leader Kim Jong Il and the respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and have emerged victorious century after century.

The reporter called for accelerating the completion of the cause of building a powerful socialist country and the cause of Juche revolution under the uplifted banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

Meetings were held in provinces, cities and counties and at industrial complexes on the same day.