The seminars, attended by political and social figures and masses of those countries, warmly revered the great man.

The chairperson of the Mongolian Mt Paektu Association, the chairperson of the Mongolian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea-Songun Idea, the chairman of the Mongolian Centre for the Study of Juche and the president of the J. Sambuu Herders Development Fund of Mongolia said that the DPRK's proud emergence as a world military power would have been unthinkable without the Songun politics of HE Kim Jong Il and the feats of the great man who led the struggle for defending socialism to victory with the treasured sword of Songun are truly stupendous.

Members of the Bangladeshi Media Persons' Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the chairman of the Sri Lanka Society for Self-Reliance Studies and the secretary general of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association said that HE Kim Jong Il's political and leadership methods are the transparent and independent political mode and the mode of leadership for defending sovereignty. And they paid high tribute to him who devoted his all to the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche and happiness of the Korean people.

Personages of the Berlin City Committee of the Communist Party of Germany, the Dresden Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and the German branch of the Group for International Solidarity with the DPRK praised the feats of Kim Jong Il who developed and enriched the history of human thought through his energetic ideological and theoretical activities and made immortal contributions to the cause of socialism and the cause of global independence.

The chairperson of the Socialist Party of Romania, the chairperson of the Romania-Korea Friendship Association, the secretary general of the Bulgarian Group for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and the chairperson of the Belarusian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea stressed that the exploits of Kim Jong Il, defender of socialism and iron-willed brilliant commander, would be always kept in the mind of the progressive people.