Data includes those of foreign friends.

The President showed warm affection for lots of foreigners regarding them as friends and comrades, irrespective of regions and nationalities.

Since the liberation of Korea till the last moments of his life he had met more than 70,000 foreigners from 136 countries.

He shared deep friendship and maintained close bonds with them for a long time, regarding them as close friends, not just work partners.

Not forgetting martyr Zhang Wei-hua who left an unforgettable memory during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, he made sure that a monument bearing epitaph written by himself was erected, and showed loving care for his descendants.

Always remembering internationalist soldier Ya. T. Nobichenko, the President during his foreign tour met him and repeatedly lavished him with great favors.

He also rendered sincere help to those countries and nations that entered the path of building new society, proceeding from his noble intention to build a new world where all countries and nations lead a free, equal and happy life.

Whenever he met foreigners, he promised to be close friends and share friendship, and the next time he met them he called them old friends and took pains to provide the best conveniences.

Learning that a foreign scholar, whom he made acquaintances with, had no child, he sent Sinsollo and Insam tonic.

When a resistance fighter of a country became the head of state, the President was so pleased that he gave a gold watch bearing his august name and also sent a good suiting.

Much attracted by his charisma, some foreigners respected and followed him as brother and some revered him as father and grandfather.

No wonder whoever was embraced by him, irrespective of residence, ideology, ism, race and religious belief, they were deeply moved, calling him the supreme incarnation of human love possessed of warm feelings and obligations.

The image of the sun of the President who bestowed warm loving care on progressive humankind as their kind-hearted father all his life is shining in the hearts of the world people.