Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), met with Kenichi Ogami, secretary general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea (IIJI), Matteo Carbonelli, vice-director general of the IIJI, and heads and delegates of delegations of Juche idea study organizations in different countries and regions, who took part in the international seminar on the Juche idea, on April 14.

Present there was Thae Hyong Chol, first vice-chairman of the Korean Association of Social Scientists and concurrently president of the Academy of Social Sciences. -0-