They included seminars in Sri Lanka and Indonesia and a lecture in Bangladesh from Mar. 27 to 30.

The chairman of the Committee of Self-Reliance Studies in Sri Lanka said that President Kim Il Sung, the eternal leader of the Korean people and the world progressives, made an immortal contribution to the human cause of independence.

The President clarified that the struggle for global independence is, in essence, the one for establishing international relations based on independence and democratizing the international community, the chairman noted, adding:

The President actively encouraged the people in colonial countries in their struggle for national liberation and rendered material and moral assistance to the newly independent countries in their building of new society.

When socialism collapsed in East European countries, he energetically led the socialist movement to reconstruction and fresh surge under the unfurled banner of independence.

The director of the Rabitra Bahtera Pratama Co. of Indonesia said that the whole life of Kim Il Sung was the sacred revolutionary one of the distinguished leader and peerless patriot as he glorified the 20th century as the one of triumphant advance of the cause of independence against imperialism, the cause of socialism with his outstanding ideas, theories and extraordinary leadership.

The chairman of the Bangladesh Group for the Study of the Songun Policy said that the tender-hearted image of Kim Il Sung as the father of the people will always be remembered not only by the Korean people but also by progressive mankind.