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DPRK Important Days in April Observed
Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Meetings, book and photo exhibitions and a film show took place in Romania, Mexico and Bangladesh on April 6 and 7 on the occasions of the Day of the Sun, the 17th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and the 78th anniversary of the Korean People's Army.

Displayed in the venues of the functions were works of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and books and photos on their undying exploits.

Speeches were made at the functions.

The chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania said that Kim Il Sung founded the immortal Juche idea, ushering in the era of independence, the new era in the human history, and took warm care of the people as the father of the great family of the country, regarding it as his lifetime maxim to believe in people as in Heaven.

He expressed confidence that thanks to the KPA led by Kim Jong Il, defender of global independence, Korean-style socialism is invincible and the DPRK will emerge a great prosperous and powerful nation envied by the world in the near future.

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico stressed that Kim Il Sung is a great statesman and outstanding strategist who has led the party, army, state and people of the DPRK along the road of victory under the uplifted banner of the Juche idea, the Songun idea.

He noted that Kim Jong Il has defended the dignity and sovereignty of the country by frustrating the imperialists' offensive to stifle the DPRK with his Songun revolutionary leadership and energetically led the struggle of the Korean people to realize the behests of the President.

The participants of the film show watched the Korean film "Fireworks for a Thriving Nation".

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