calendar>>July 17. 2009 Juche 98
Kim Il Sung Remembered
Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- Book and photo exhibitions and lectures were held in Romania, Ukraine and Guinea between June 27 and July 10 to commemorate the 15th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.

On display at the venues were works of the peerlessly great persons, photos on their immortal revolutionary exploits and books and photos of the Korean people in the efforts to build a great prosperous and powerful nation.

Speeches were made.

The representative of the Romanian branch of the Korean Friendship Association headquartered in Spain said that the Juche idea fathered by Kim Il Sung serves as the only guideline for independence of the popular masses. It is arousing great sympathy from the progressive people for its truth, validity and vitality, he added.

The chairman of the Romanian Workers' Association said that Kim Il Sung is the founding-father as he built the DPRK which is the first people's country in the Korean nation's history of 5,000 years and a socialist power unshakable in any storm of history.

The chairman of the Association for the Study of Songun Policy in a city of Ukraine said that the life of Kim Il Sung is the brilliant life of the great revolutionary and the father of the people unprecedented in the human history. And he highly praised the undying exploits of Kim Il Sung who fathered the immortal Juche idea, defeated the two imperialist formidable enemies in one generation and built the socialist system centered on the popular masses in Korea.

The director general of the Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea noted that the Korean people are translating into reality what Kim Il Sung desired in his lifetime, holding him in high esteem as the eternal President of the DPRK. The world progressives' reverence for the President, a peerlessly great man, is growing deeper as the days go by, the speaker stressed.

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