Thomas Losh, secretary general of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and DPRK and chief of the Group of Youth for the Study of Kim Jong Il Juche Idea in Vienna, was elected chairman of the preparatory committee.

The preparatory committee decided to hold multifarious political and cultural events in praise of the revolutionary careers and feats of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the Day of the Sun and the Day of the Shining Star.