calendar>>January 2. 2019 Juche 108
Celebrations Held Abroad
Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Meetings took place in Bulgaria and Switzerland and a lecture in Zambia and film shows in Russia and Nigeria from December 10 to 22 last year to mark the 27th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army and the 7th anniversary of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's assumption of the same position.

Screened at the film shows were Korean films "Kimjongilia" and "The Sun of Songun Shedding Its Rays All over the World".

The curator of the DPRK Cultural and Information Center in Vratsa City of Bulgaria said that Kim Jong Il strengthened and developed the Korean People's Army into the army of the leader.

Today the DPRK's national power has reached the highest level, thanks to the energetic leadership of HE Kim Jong Un, who has carried forward Chairman Kim Jong Il's cause, the curator added.

The chairperson of the Switzerland-Korea Committee said that Kim Jong Il formulated the Songun politics as the main political mode of socialism and turned the DPRK into the invincible socialist fortress through his Songun-based revolutionary leadership, noting:

The Korean People's Army holding Kim Jong Un as supreme commander has demonstrated its prestige as the most elite, powerful army.

The chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Maritime Territorial Branch Committee of the United Russia Party said that they were impressed by Kim Jong Il's greatness and the Russian people's ardent reverence for him while watching a Korean film.

A congratulatory message to Kim Jong Un was adopted at the celebration held in Switzerland.

Meanwhile, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of Kim Jong Un's assumption of the supreme commandership of the KPA friendship meeting, book and photo exhibition and film show were held in the DPRK mission in Malaysia on Dec. 24 last year.

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