Seminars on Juche Idea Held in Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, etc.
with Juche Idea Researchers after Their Visits to DPRK

Researchers of the Juche idea from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe participated in an International Seminar on the Juche Idea for “Independence, Justice, and the Future of Mankind” held in Pyongyang in last April. After returning home, those participants are holding briefing sessions on their visits to the DPRK and seminars on the Juche idea in their own countries.

Italy

Explaining Idea “Devoting One’s All to the Good of People,”
Essene of People-first Principle

Prof. Matteo Carbonelli, secretary general of the European Regional Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, made a keynote paper entitled “Realization of Independence and Justice Guarantees Bright Future of Mankind” at the said International Seminar on the Juche Idea in Pyongyang.

Afterwards, at a meeting held in Rome, on June 19, 2024, he gave a keynote presentation on the revolutionary ideology of Kim Jong Un entitled “Kim Jong Un’s Contribution to the Development of the Juche Idea”.

He spoke about Kim Jong Un’s clarification of an idea “Devoting one’s all to the good of the people,” the essence of the people-first principle, and emphasized the importance of the struggle for independence.

A view of the district of terraced housing along the River Pothonggan

He also introduced the current amazing development of the DPRK by showing photos taken during his stay in Pyongyang in last April.

Mexico

Seminar Held by Mexican National Committee for the Study of
Kimilsung-Kimjongilism

Five Juche idea researchers from Mexico, including Mr. Eleazar Rubio Aldaran, secretary general of the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea, and Prof. Arquimedes Perez Bello, advisor to the Mexican National Committee for the Study of Kimilsung-Kimjongilism visited the DPRK in last April to take part in the said international seminar.

The Mexican delegation that visited the DPRK last April

On July 6, 2024 a seminar was held in Mexico City by the Mexican National Committee for the Study of Kimilsung-Kimjongilism with Prof. Ramon Jimenez Lopez as chairman, who is also director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea. It was attended by approximately 80 participants.

Several people made remarks at the seminar, including Andrea Zarate Fuentes, chairperson of the “Youth Movement for Independence of Latin America.

The Mexican chairperson explained the contents of the speech made by Dr. Ogami Ken-ichi, secretary general of the IIJI at the said International Seminar on the Juche Idea entitled “Juche Idea Supports Realizing People’s Aspirations for Independence and Equality”, using illustrations and photographs.

Nigeria

African-Arabian Regional Seminar Online

From July 4 to 8, an African-Arabian Regional Internet seminar was held in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, jointly organized by the African Regional Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People and the Arabian Regional Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People.

The seminar was attended by Nigerian political parties, friendship and solidarity figures, and researchers of the Juche idea.

Also participated online by people of friendship and solidarity with the DPRK people such as from Guinea, Mali, Democratic Congo, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Algeria, those from Middle Eastern countries such as Jordan, and those people of friendship and solidarity with the Korean people from Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as the Juche idea researchers from those respective countries.

Those participants in the seminar praised President Kim Il Sung, who made achievements in human history of crushing the aggression of outside forces and thoroughly safeguarding the independence of the Korean nation.

They also referred to the achievements of Kim Jong Il, who succeeded and developed the cause of Juche, and those of Kim Jong Un, who is developing today's socialist Korea to a higher level.

Prof. Alhassan Manman Muhammad (right), chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsung-Kimjongilism, who participated in the 22nd meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the Juche Idea held in Pyongyang (April 14, 2024) and expressed his commitment to the development of the study and dissemination of the Juche idea in Nigeria and other African countries