calendar>>July 16. 2013 Juche 102
Remembrance Meetings Held in Foreign Countries
Pyongyang, July 16 (KCNA) -- Meetings for remembering President Kim Il Sung took place in Cambodia, Democratic Congo and Germany between July 6 and 8 on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of his demise.

The participants laid bouquets before the portraits of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Kong Sam Ol, deputy prime minister for Royal Palace of Cambodia, said that Kim Il Sung was the great man who devoted all his life to the happiness of the people, always finding himself among them.

Though he passed away, the Korean people are holding him in high esteem as their eternal leader, Kong Sam Ol said, adding:

The traditional friendly relations between the two countries which were provided by Great King Norodom Sihanouk and President Kim Il Sung will steadily develop in the future, too.

Otete Gaston Mboyo, deputy general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Democratic Congo who doubles as chairman of the Democratic Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association, said:

Kim Il Sung was the great man of the 21st century.

He applied the Juche idea and led the Korean revolution and the world revolution to victory.

He was an invincible and iron-willed commander who defeated the Japanese imperialists, founded the DPRK as the genuine country of the people and brought about a great victory in the Korean War ignited by the U.S.

HeThe President built the DPRK as a socialist power independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence and served the people till the last moments of his life.

His great exploits for the Korean revolution and the world revolution will remain forever in the hearts of the Korean people and the progressives.

Messages to the dear respected Kim Jong Un were adopted at the meetings held in Democratic Congo and Germany.

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