Speeches were made at the functions.

Riyad Chaloub, chief of the Guinean Group for the Study of February 16 Art, at the lecture said that independence ran through the whole life of Kim Il Sung who led to victory the Korean revolution for over seven decades.

On the basis of this truth, Kim Il Sung founded the Juche idea, the Songun idea, at the historic Kalun meeting in 1930, he said, adding that the Korean revolution could advance along the road of independence indicated by the Juche idea, the Songun idea since then.

Medhane, secretary general of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea, read out "The Home Base" from Vol. 3 of Part One The Anti-Japanese Revolution of "With the Century", the reminiscences of Kim Il Sung, and said that the reminiscences serve as a textbook which the people aspiring after independence should regard as guidelines.

After watching a Korean film showing the exploits of the President for the liberation of Korea, the deputy director of the Russian Centre for the International Scientific and Technological Bulletins stressed that the Korean people could wage a dynamic struggle against the Japanese aggressors as they were led by Kim Il Sung.