The director of the "Kominform" Company of Finland in a statement on June 9 said that Kim Jong Il has fully displayed his traits as the great leader of the Party and people with his outstanding political caliber and the love for the people while working in the C.C., the WPK. He praised Kim Jong Il as the great elder statesman who strengthened and developed the WPK into an invincible revolutionary party.

Kim Jong Il, supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, made sure that the army has creditably discharged its mission as the driving force of socialist construction and defender of the country and the nation, he said, adding that the Songun policy is the most original and successful political mode in the world political history.

U Than Tun, deputy director general of the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited, in a statement on June 13 noted that the works of Kim Jong Il serve as great immortal programmes which guarantee the sure victory of the popular masses' cause of independence as they give scientific solution to the theoretical and practical issues arising in improving and strengthening the party building and activities as required by the developing historical circumstances and the times.

The WPK has led to victory the Korean people in the struggle to bring about a new turn in accomplishing the cause of Korea's reunification and dynamically shaped the destiny and future of the country and the nation under the seasoned and tested leadership of Kim Jong Il, he noted.