Receptions, friendly meetings, book and photo exhibitions and film shows were held at the DPRK missions in Khabarovsk of Russia, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia, Singapore, India, Cambodia, Pakistan, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela, the DPRK permanent missions to the UN Office and International Organizations in Geneva and to the UN on the occasion of the 112th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Present there on invitation were personages of the parliaments, governments, political parties, organizations and institutions of those countries and foreign diplomatic envoys in their countries. Officials of the DPRK missions were present.

Screened at film shows were a film dealing with the noble personality of the President as the great man admired by all people and videos showing the tremendous national power and happy children of the DPRK.

Speeches were made at the events.

A vice foreign minister of Vietnam said that President Kim Il Sung wisely led the Korean people’s struggle for national liberation and socialist construction, adding that the Korean people achieved great successes in accomplishing the revolutionary cause while overcoming the challenges and trials under his leadership.

A vice-minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Mongolia said that the friendly relations provided by Comrade Kim Il Sung together with the preceding leaders of Mongolia are now developing under the care of the top leaders of the two countries.

The chairperson of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party of Romania, the chairperson of the Socialist Party of Romania and the chairperson of the Romania-Korea Friendship Association praised the President as an extraordinary thinker and theoretician, outstanding strategist and peerless elder statesman, saying that the exploits performed by him will always be remembered by progressive mankind.

Personages of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus and the Communist Party of Belarus said that the Korean people led by Comrade Kim Jong Un are waging a dynamic struggle to bring about the prosperity of the country as desired by Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

The director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea and a vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela said that the great Comrade Kim Il Sung made a great contribution to the development of the Korean revolution and the world revolution and that under the guidance of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un the Korean people are registering world-startling successes in defending the sovereignty of the country and building socialism.

The general secretary of the Movement for Peace and Socialism of Italy, the chairperson of the Italian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea and other speakers said that the DPRK is shining as a socialist fortress and it would be unthinkable without the exploits of President Kim Il Sung, founder of the DPRK, and praised the exploits he performed for liberating the country and building the Party and the state.

The secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia expressed expectation and belief that the traditional relations of friendship and good cooperation between the DPRK and Cambodia would grow stronger for the mutual interests of the peoples of the two countries and regional peace and stability, wishing the Korean people happiness and prosperity.

Rodong Sinmun