Deep Attention Always Given to the Development of Friendly Relations with African Countries

 

The Day of the Sun, a holiday common to progressive humankind, draws nearer.

On the occasion of the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, we recollect with deep emotions once again the immortal exploits performed by him in the development of the friendly relations with the African countries as world progressive people are burning their hearts with ardent yearnings and boundless reverence for President Kim Il Sung.

In April 1992, 30 years ago, state leaders from several countries in the world paid official goodwill visits to our country to congratulate the 80th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Among them were also Presidents of Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Guinea and Sierra Leone from a far-off Africa beyond the continent and the ocean.

The goodwill envoys of Africa to our country received warm welcome from the citizens in Pyongyang.

President Kim Il Sung hosted a grand banquet in honor of them and arranged a tour for them around Pyongyang and other local places as well. Though he was very busy, he spared valuable time to personally meet every one of them and gave a clear solution to the issues arising in the independent development of their countries and the building of their national economies while giving support and encouragement to their struggle to build a new society.

Especially, at a meeting with Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, he accepted with a good grace his request to provide them with assistance necessary for the construction, national defense and other fields, and took benevolent measures to dispatch our experts and technicians in the relevant fields to Equatorial Guinea and to send assistance materials needed.

The history of friendship between Korea and Africa did not start only in the 1990s.

When many African countries including Guinea, Mali and Congo achieved independence from the colonial rule of the imperialists in the 1950s and 1960s, President Kim Il Sung saw to it that our country became the first to establish diplomatic ties with those countries. He also extended full support and encouragement to their struggle to consolidate the independence and build a new society.

Throughout the African continent, there stand historic creations and monumental buildings erected by the hands of the experts and technicians from our country. These include Kim Il Sung Institute of Agricultural Science in Guinea, National Palace of Guinea, Dembe hydroelectric power station, parliamentary building of Central Africa, Victoria solidarity stadium in Seychelles. These become a symbol of the DPRK-Africa friendship.

Indeed, it is endless to talk about the immortal exploits of the President Kim Il Sung accomplished in developing the friendly relations with African countries.

 

Therefore, the African Presidents who visited our country offered their sincerest congratulations   to   President Kim   Il   Sung marking   his 80th birthday when they had met him. They praised with one voice that President Kim Il Sung is an outstanding man who illuminates the road ahead for not only the Korean people, but also the world people, people from developing countries in particular in their struggle for patriotism, independence and autonomy.

President Kim Il Sung conducted energetic external activities for the development of the friendly relations with African countries until the last moment of his great revolutionary lifetime. His immortal exploits will shine more brightly throughout generations and centuries.

We will make active efforts to expand and develop, as required by a new age, the friendly relations with African countries who struggle to reject foreign intervention, achieve national unity, and ensure regional peace and stability.

Korea-Africa Assoc.