Present there were officials of the confederation.

Kim Chil Song, chairman of the confederation, and others made speeches.

The speakers said that President Kim Il Sung, the eternal leader and the sun of the Korean nation, was a great man who liberated the country and restored the usurped dignity, honor and sovereignty of the nation.

They praised the President for building the socialist state centered on the people and laying the ever-lasting foundations for building a powerful country for the prosperity of the country and the nation.

They said that there was no such a peerless patriot as the President who performed great exploits by devotedly working until the last moments of his life to provide the Korean nation with a reunified country.

The President will always be remembered for the idea and exploits he performed by devoting himself to the happiness of the people all his life, regarding it as his maxim to believe in the people as in Heaven, and by making great contributions to implementing the cause of global independence, they stressed.