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Anniversary of demise of Chairman Kim Jong Il commemorated in different countries

Date: 08/12/2021 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

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There took place a memorial meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lectures in Mongolia, Uganda and Senegal and a film show in Russia from November 17 to 28 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

A DPRK film on the Chairman's visit to the Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation was shown at the film show.

The chairman of the Mongolian Cultural and Research Center of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said that Chairman Kim Jong Il who faithfully carried forward the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, the founder of the DPRK, formulated the revolutionary idea of the President as Kimilsungism and thoroughly applied it to the revolution and construction.

The first vice-chairman and members of the DR Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association stressed that the revolutionary career and feats of Chairman Kim Jong Il shine more brightly day after day as the great vitality of Juche-oriented ideology and theory developed by him is verified more vividly through the reality of socialist Korea which achieves prosperity under the leadership of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

The chairman of the Ugandan National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, the chairman of the Ugandan National Executive Committee of the Pan-African Movement, the chairman of the Uganda-DPRK Friendship Association and other political and public personages of Uganda praised the Chairman for the exploits he had performed for accomplishing the cause of independence for humankind.

A message to General Secretary Kim Jong Un was adopted at the memorial meeting in DR Congo.

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