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Chairman Kim Jong Il remembered in different countries

Date: 13/12/2024 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Personages of different countries have expressed deep reverence for Chairman Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

The international secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People of Spain said that the whole life of Comrade Kim Jong Il was a life dedicated to the prosperity of his country and happiness of its people.

A vice-director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway and the chairman of the Sri Lanka Society for Self-Reliance Studies stressed that the history of Kim Jong Il's revolutionary leadership is associated with his untiring efforts for developing the Workers' Party of Korea into a dignified party of the leader in which oneness of ideology and leadership is firmly ensured and for energetically guiding the struggle to defend the revolutionary traditions of Paektu and the unity and cohesion of the revolutionary ranks.

The chairperson of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party of Romania, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the chairman of the Brazilian Center for the Study of Songun Politics said that the world history of revolutionary movement has recorded many politicians who contributed to the pioneering and building of socialism but there is no such great man as HE Kim Jong Il who defended the revolution and laid a solid foundation for accomplishing the socialist cause in the worst adversity.

The first secretary of the Maritime Territorial Regional Committee of the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation and the chairman of the Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association said that thanks to HE Kim Jong Il's Songun politics, the Korean people won victory in the unprecedented struggle for defending socialism and could lead a peaceful life without a war despite the protracted confrontation with the imperialists.

A member of the Central Executive Committee of the Myanmar Journalist Association, the chairperson of the Thailand-DPRK Friendship Association, the chairman of the South African National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and other personages stressed that the undying exploits performed by HE Kim Jong Il for the accomplishment of the cause of global independence and the development of the friendly relations among countries aspiring after independence would shine long in the history of struggle of the progressive peoples for independence against imperialism and for peace and friendship.

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