Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- Celebrations took place in Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Germany, Bulgaria, Sweden, Austria, Iceland, France, Finland and Mexico in the period from September 4 to 8 on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

Present there were personages of governments, parliaments, political parties, organizations and institutions of relevant countries and members of organizations for the study of Juche idea and organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people. Speeches were made there.

The chief of the Bulgarian Group for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism praised the DPRK for covering the road of victory and glory under the guidance of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Today the DPRK people are working fresh miracles one after another on the road of the overall development of socialism under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the chief said.

A senator of the Pakistani parliament and figures of the Pakistan Awami National Party, the Pakistan People's Party, the National Party of Pakistan and the Pakistan-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee praised President

Kim Il Sung for putting forward the Korean people as the masters of a dignified, independent and sovereign state.

They said that Chairman Kim Jong Il led the DPRK to advance along the road of socialism, consolidating the single-minded unity of the whole society with the Juche idea as its guideline, and that all the people are advancing toward the future, rallied around the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

The general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, the chairperson of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association, the chairperson of the Society for the Promotion of the Relations between Austria and the DPRK, the international secretary of the Finnish Communists' League and the chairperson of the Finland-Korea Society lauded the nation-building exploits of Kim Il Sung and the feats Kim Jong Il performed for the prosperity of socialist Korea.

They explained that the international position of the DPRK has been enhanced and its might as a world-level military power demonstrated under the leadership of the respected General Secretary.

A member of the Central Executive Committee of the Myanmar Journalist Association said that the high position of the DPRK in the international arena was proved by the fact that Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, occupied the centre of the platform together with the leaders of Russia and China during the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War recently held in Beijing.

Congratulatory messages to Kim Jong Un were adopted at the celebrations held in Sweden and Iceland. -0-