Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a message from the participants in the Asia-Pacific regional joint memorial meeting on July 7 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.

The message paid high tribute to President Kim Il Sung, founder of the DPRK and the Juche idea whose validity and vitality have been proved in the course of the struggle against imperialism and the advance of the cause of global independence.

It praised the President as an ardent revolutionary, prominent leader, peerless patriot, gifted military strategist and benevolent father of the people who devoted his whole life to the freedom and liberation of the country.

He is always alive in the hearts of all peoples of the countries aspiring after independence as he illuminated the road ahead of mankind with the rays of Juche, it stressed.

The participants extended firm support and solidarity to the just cause of the DPRK people to build the country into a thriving socialist power and frustrate the imperialist reactionary forces' moves for aggression, the message said. -0-