Seminars, lectures, friendly gatherings and film shows took place in Nepal, Mongolia, Bangladesh, the Czech Republic and Algeria from January 27 to February 4 to mark the Day of the Shining Star and the 75^th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army (KPA).

Present at the events were personages of political parties, organisations and organs of relevant countries and members of Juche idea study organisations and organisations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people.

At the friendly gathering, the chairperson of the Mongolia Mt. Paektu Association, the chairperson of the Mongolian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea-Songun Idea and the chairman of the Mongolian Centre for the Study of Juche said that Chairman Kim Jong Il is an extraordinary great man who achieved great feats for the strengthening and development of the DPRK and the accomplishment of the cause of peace of mankind, it is unthinkable without Kim Jong Il’s Songun politics that the DPRK is displaying its might as a world military power. They wished the Korean people greater success in socialist construction and strengthening of national defence capabilities in hearty response to the decision of the 6^th Plenary Meeting of the 8^th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Belarus National Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il put on the Internet homepage the following article to mark the 75^th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army.

“The great leader of the Korean people Comrade Kim Il Sung developed the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army formed in the period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle into the Korean People’s Army, regular revolutionary armed force. After the liberation he put forward the task of building the regular revolutionary armed force that carried forward the tradition of anti-Japanese by their own efforts as well as the tasks of party building and nation building and wisely led the work to carry them into practice. Thanks to his leadership regular armed force was built from scratch in a short span of time.”

The Bangladeshi paper “Daily Folk” also in an article captioned “Invincible Korean People’s Army” referred to the invincibility of the Korean revolutionary armed force, the world focus, saying that as it is led by Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un, the Korean People’s Army will always be crowned with victory and glory.”