Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- Figures of at least 170 countries authored and made public a total of more than 45,000 works in profound reverence for President Kim Il Sung in the last six decades. They include books of more than 2,000 kinds such as "Biography of Kim Il Sung," "Short Biography of Kim Il Sung," reminiscences of how foreign figures were received by the President, notes on interviews they had with him, reminiscences and poems.
Most of them were published in more than 40 languages.
The book "Seventieth Spring" which Carnero Checa, former secretary general of the Federation of Latin American Journalists, started writing and his wife completed said that April in spring in the DPRK when the President was born is an eternal one of the century when the great sun of humankind rose.
Guo Moruo, former president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous poet, in "Another Spring", a poem dedicated to the President, wrote that his birth is the greatest fortune of humankind in the 20th century.
Ex-President of Tanzania Julius K. Nyerere and former Chief Director of the Japan-Korea Cultural Interchange Association Takeo Takagi and many other figures in their books and works wrote with deep emotion that humankind is fortunate to have the President.
On April 20, Juche 40 (1951) when the Fatherland Liberation War was at its height in Korea Rodong Sinmun dedicated its one whole page to epic "General Kim Il Sung" written by N. M. Gribachov, a famous writer and a social activist of the former Soviet Union.
German woman writer Luise Rinser in her "Travel Notes on Korea" lauded Kim Il Sung as the world's best political elder, ardently appealing the world people to learn from his great idea and practice.
President of the Bangladesh People's League Garib Newaz, Cuban woman lawyer Candelaria Rodriguez Hernandez and other personages of different strata wrote books, poems, reminiscences of how they were received by the President, impressions of the DPRK and travel notes such as "Ode to Kim Il Sung, Great Master of Leadership", "Korea Which I Saw 40 Years Later" and "Genuine Policy for the People".
Cambodian Great King Norodom Sihanouk published reminiscences "On Special Relations between President Kim Il Sung and I", in which he wrote that when looking back upon his checkered career the President was like a God who protected his destiny.
In the second half of 1994 famous writers, artistes, figures from all walks of life and working people in many countries wrote and published nearly 200 poems including "A March for Immortality of Kim Il Sung" and "Immortal Leader."
Reminiscences were written by Former Governor of Heilongjiang Province of China Chen Lei, Director of the Italian Institute of International Relations Giancarlo Elia Valori, former Portuguese President Marshal Francisco Da Costa Gomes, former Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union Marshal D. T. Yazov and other politicians, high-ranking military officers and persons of culture and media.
At least 200 kinds of books including "Short Biography of Comrade Kim Il Sung", "Kim Il Sung, Legendary Leader", "Kim Il Sung and Zhang Weihua", "Greatest Man" were published in national languages in many countries such as Russia, Nepal, Syria, Britain, Bulgaria, Egypt, Nigeria, Peru and Ecuador. The number of books and works written and published in the new century reached thousands plus the above-said ones.
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