calendar>>Februar14. 2010 Juch 99
Kim Jong Il's Birthday Observed in Various Countries
Pyongyang, February 14 (KCNA) -- Seminars, lectures, meetings, photo exhibitions, round-table talks, film shows and other events were held in Ethiopia, Democratic Congo, Indonesia, Mongolia, India and Iran from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6 on the occasion of the birthday of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Displayed in the venues of the functions were works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, photos on their undying exploits and books and photos introducing the invincible might and advantages of Korean-style socialism.

The chief of a branch of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea, said in his report at a seminar that it is Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, who created the Juche idea, the Songun idea that serves as a transparent idea of independence and it is Kim Jong Il who comprehensively systematized and developed the idea in depth to glorify it as a guiding idea of the times.

The chairman of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of University of Kinshasa of Democratic Congo said at a seminar that Kim Jong Il is a prominent thinker and theoretician recognized by the international community.

The director of the P.T. Dwi Mitra Perkasa Company of Indonesia stressed in a lecture that the Korean people would build an economic power, too, without fail as they have built up the strongest political and military potentials under the experienced and seasoned leadership of Kim Jong Il.

Messages of greetings to Kim Jong Il were adopted at a seminar held in Ethiopia and an event in Mongolia.

Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.