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Day of Sun Observed in Various Countries
Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- Lecture meetings were held in South Africa and Guinea and a film show in Russia on Mar. 23 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The chairman of the Mahlambandlophy, Pretoria City, Branch of the African National Congress of South Africa said in a lecture that the whole life of Kim Il Sung, who regarded it as his motto to believe in the people as in Heaven, was embroidered with the love and devotion to the people.

That is why the Korean people have held him in high esteem as their father, founder of socialist Korea and the eternal President, he stressed.

He also said that General Secretary Kim Jong Il who fully inherited the idea and personality of the President is the most prominent elder statesman of the present era.

Banou Keita, chairman of the Guinea-Korea Friendship Association, said in a lecture that
Kim Il Sung dedicated his all to the country and the people and that the lifetime of the President will remain long in the hearts of the Korean people and the world's progressive mankind expressing their admiration and reverence.

Appreciated at the film show was Korean film "Mt. Kuwol, a Scenic Spot on the West Coast."

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