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Day of Sun Commemorated at DPRK Missions
Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Receptions, book and photo exhibitions, friendly gatherings and film shows were held at the DPRK missions in Cuba, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Poland, Romania, UK and Bulgaria from April 1 to 10 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.

On display in the venues of events were works of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary
Kim Jong Il and photos on undying feats performed by them and books and photos on the real picture of Songun Korea.

Speeches were made there.

The secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia said that
Kim Il Sung was a national hero of Korea who firmly protected the DPRK from foreign forces' invasion and turned it into a power independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence.

The minister of Hotel and Tourism of Myanmar noted that the revolutionary cause of Kim Il Sung is being successfully carried forward by Kim Jong Il, expressing confidence that the Korean people would surely open the gate to a thriving nation in 2012, the centenary of birth of Kim Il Sung, under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The chairman of the Romanian Socialist Union and the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Socialist Party of Romania stressed that Kim Il Sung's whole life was one dedicated to the country and the people.

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the New Communist Party of Britain praised
Kim Il Sung as a great leader of the world revolution who built Korean-style socialism centered on the popular masses, making a great contribution to the anti-imperialist national liberation struggle in various countries.

Participants in the film shows watched such Korean films as "Fireworks for a Thriving Nation", "The Tower of the Juche Idea", "The Arch of Triumph" and "The Country I Saw."

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