The minister of Health who doubles as deputy prime minister said that Kim Jong Il developed in depth the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung and consolidated the single-hearted unity of the whole society as firm as a rock, adding that he wisely led the struggle for prosperity of socialist Korea.

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh and other figures spoke highly of the exploits performed by Kim Jong Il for the Korean revolution and global independence and praised him as the outstanding thinker and theoretician and the genius of creation and construction.

The chairman of the Anti-Imperialist Forum of Germany and other speakers elaborated on the revolutionary career and exploits of Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the building of a powerful socialist country, the happiness of the people and national reunification.

The participants in a seminar held under the sponsorship of the British preparatory committee for celebrating the Day of the Shining Star said that the world progressives hold colorful celebrations in humble reverence for the peerlessly great man in February every year.