Present there were personages of the Karelia-DPRK Friendship Association, Karelia branch of the Movement for Supporting Army, Karelia branch of the Veterans Foundation and the Karelia branch of the Navy Veterans Union of Russia, the Danish National Committee for Remembering Leader Kim Jong Il, the Communist Party of Denmark, DR Congo Committee for Remembering Generalissimo Kim Jong Il and the DR Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association and masses.

Viktor Yegorov, chairman of the Karelia-DPRK Friendship Association of Russia, said that the Russian people will always remember the contributions made by Kim Jong Il to boosting the Russia-DPRK relations.

Anders Kristensen, co-chairman of the Danish National Committee for Remembering Leader Kim Jong Il, praised him as the greatest man, outstanding thinker and theoretician and great master of leadership.

Otete Gaston Mboyo, chairman of the DR Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association, said:

The world history of politics produced many great men but never knows such a leader as Kim Jong Il who has excellent political caliber.

Thanks to him the world could greet the era of independence, the era of Juche, and the DPRK turned into an invincible socialist power.

Though he passed away, his great idea and exploits will be everlasting along with the struggle of the world people aspiring after independence.

A message to supreme leader Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting held in Denmark.