On display in the venues of the photo exhibitions were photos on the immortal Songun leadership exploits of Kim Jong Il.

The vice-president of the International Taekwon-Do Association in Iran said in his lecture that
Kim Jong Il's birth as a son of guerrillas was a great fortune not only of the Korean people but of the world progressives. The DPRK is sure to emerge a thriving nation as Kim Jong Il is wisely leading the Korean people, he stressed.

The chairman of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea at Kankan University of Guinea said in his lecture that what is characteristic of the creative mode of Kim Jong Il is that he is creating and building everything on the highest level that the intellectuals today have ever reached.

The director of a publishing house of Myanmar said after watching Korean film "Fireworks of a Thriving Nation" that the army and people of the DPRK would glorify this year marking the 65th birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea as a year of prosperity when the people will enjoy happiness and a year of a dramatic turn to be specially recorded in the history of building a thriving nation.