calendar>>July 8. 2019 Juche 108
President Kim Il Sung Highly Praised Abroad
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Remembrance meetings, seminars on exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Korean book and photo exhibitions took place in Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Democratic Congo and Mexico from June 19 to 29 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the demise of the President.

Present at the events were figures of various circles and masses in the relevant countries.

The chairman of the Tynda Association for the Study of the Juche Idea in Russia said that Kim Il Sung founded the Juche idea and basing on the idea, accomplished the historic cause of national liberation and led the three year-long Fatherland Liberation War to a brilliant victory.

He noted that the DPRK under his wise leadership finished the post-war rehabilitation and construction and carried out a historic task for socialist industrialization in a short span of time holding aloft the banner of self-reliance.

Speakers including the chief of the Milano Center for the Study of the Juche Idea of Italy and the chief editor of La Voce praised the President as the father of socialist Korea who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a legendary hero of the Korean people and tender-hearted father who devotedly worked for the people all his life.

The chairman of the DR Congo National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea said that the President, regarding it as his motto to believe in the people as in Heaven, turned the DPRK into a genuine country of the people and a country strong in independence and devoted his all to national reunification.

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico and the president of the Mexican Friend Association for Memory of President Kim Il Sung and Leader Kim Jong Il lauded the exploits the President performed for the socialist construction and human cause of independence.

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