The events were attended by public personages and other people in those countries.

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico praised President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il for founding and developing the DPRK.

The chairman of the Mexico-Korea Friendship Association praised the ideological and theoretical exploits of the President who illuminated the path ahead of mankind by founding the immortal Juche idea.

The chairmen of the Finland-Korea Society and the Finnish National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea lauded the President as the great leader who built a dignified socialist state and world-famous elder statesman boundlessly revered by all people.

The chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway said the President was an extraordinary thinker and theoretician and prominent revolutionary, adding that his birth anniversary is a significant day of not only the Korean people but also the world progressives.

Congratulatory messages to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un were adopted at the events held in Finland and Norway.

A book exhibition and other events were held at a hotel in Vladivostok of Russia on April 12.