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Exploits of Kim Il Sung Praised at Regional Seminar

Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- An Asia-Pacific regional Internet seminar on immortal exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung for global independence took place in Indonesia on August 3 and 4.

The seminar brought together chiefs of Juche idea study organizations and organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people and political and public figures from Asia-Pacific countries including Cambodia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand and Japan and teachers and students of Bungkarno University of Indonesia.

An opening speech was made by the secretary general of the National Guidance Council of the Pioneer Party of Indonesia. Then introduced were messages of greeting to the seminar by representatives of the international preparatory committee and different regional preparatory committees for commemorating the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung and the director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea.

The general chairperson of the Indonesian Party said in a keynote report that the world is vast and human history is long, but they do not know such great man as Kim Il Sung who performed so immortal exploits after embarking on the road of revolution at his early age.

Kim Il Sung's exploits, unprecedented in their contents, depth, sphere and influence on the development of times and history, will last forever, he stressed.

The idea and cause of the President have been successfully carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il in the DPRK, he noted, expressing the belief that the cause of global independence is sure to be accomplished thanks to Kim Jong Il.

Then the floor was taken by the honorary chairman of the Philippine Preparatory Committee for Commemorating the Centenary of Birth of President Kim Il Sung, the secretary general of the Nepali National Committee for Remembering the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the chairman of the Cambodia-Korea Friendship Association, the chairman of the Bangladesh People's League, the chairman of the Thai Organization for the Study of Juche Idea and an advisor to the Mongolia-Korea Friendship Association and other personages. The speakers lauded Kim Il Sung as a prominent leader and the sun of the 20th century, underscoring the need to significantly commemorate the centenary of birth of the President as the greatest holiday common to humankind.

A letter to Kim Jong Il was adopted there.

The letter said that the exploits performed by the President in the annals of the past century serve as the most precious treasure of humankind and a source of boundless strength encouraging the world progressive people in the era of independence to win victories.

The Jakarta declaration on the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung was adopted at the seminar.

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