calendar>> April 18. 2014 Juche 103
Day of Sun Observed in Foreign Countries
Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- Events were held in foreign countries on April 8 and 10 on the occasion of the Day of the Sun, birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

They included seminars, lectures, book and photo exhibitions and film shows in Romania, Germany, DR Congo and Colombia.

Displayed at the venues of the events were photos documenting the revolutionary activities of Kim Il Sung, leader Kim Jong Il and Marshal Kim Jong Un.

On display there were works of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu and books and photos introducing successes made by the DPRK's army and people in building a thriving socialist nation.

Film shown included Korean film "Eternal Treasure Praising the Sun".

The chairman of the Romanian preparatory committee for celebrating the Day of the Sun said:

Events to celebrate the Day of the Sun are now under way worldwide.

This makes us keenly realize once again that Kim Il Sung is the great leader who is deeply revered by not only the Korean people but world progressive humankind.

The chairman of the Anti-Imperialist Forum of Germany praised Kim Il Sung for defeating the U.S. and Japanese imperialism in one generation and founding the immortal Juche idea to provide the immortal guiding idea for accomplishing the human cause of independence.

The deputy general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of DR Congo who doubles as chairman of the DR Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association in a lecture stressed that the DPRK could invariably advance along the road of independence and socialism thanks to the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu who led the Korean revolution to victory under the unfurled banner of Songun.

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