The chairman of the Executive Committee of the Nakhodka City Branch of the Maritime Territory of the United Russia Party said President Kim Il Sung was a prominent statesman as he, with his independent politics, wisely led the Korean people to steadily advance along the road of their choice in defiance of hardships.

The chief of the Franken Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Germany said the Korean people revered the President as the founder of socialist Korea and benevolent father and always remembered him.

Angolan speakers introduced the servicepersons and people of the DPRK who are reliably defending the peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of the world by categorically smashing the provocations of the U.S. and other hostile forces.