[1][2] North Korea's proposal to host this event received acknowledgment and endorsement in the final declaration of the 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in New Delhi, India earlier that same year.

[1] The conference called upon the member states to cooperate with the new "Josip Broz Tito" Art Gallery of the Nonaligned Countries which was to open its doors in 1984.

[6] North Korean idea to invite large number of high ranking NAM delegations to attend 70th birthday of Kim Il Sung was respectfully rejected as well, yet the country aimed to host a large scale NAM event to partially mitigate successful South Korean application to host the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Embassy of the Hungarian People's Republic in Pyongyang sent a ciphered telegram on 15 August 1983 in which it strongly criticized the conduct of the Korean host for excluding Cuba from the committee which was drafting the final documents and for pushing Juche ideology.

[9] Yugoslav delegation nevertheless avoided to reply to this proposal and underlined that the host will be decided at the upcoming 1985 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference in Luanda, Angola.