The Mexican Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea said in its bulletin that Kim Hyong Jik was an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea. He provided an ideological and moral source of the Juche idea, the Songun idea which serves as an idea guiding socialist Korea today, it added.

The chief of the French Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and the Songun Idea said that Kim Hyong Jik dedicated his whole life to the sacred struggle for the country's independence. He was inspired by ardent patriotism and indomitable revolutionary spirit that one should fight it out against the Japanese imperialists generation after generation to liberate the country, the chief added.

The Pakistani paper Baluchistan Times noted that Kim Hyong Jik played the role of pioneer in changing the course of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea from the nationalist movement to the proletarian revolution.

The chairman of the Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea said that Kim Hyong Jik clarified that a genuine way for the development of the national liberation movement was the independent struggle of the nation. At that time the world was not yet much engaged in the issue of the national liberation struggle in colony, he added.

The Egypt-Korea Friendship Association carried in its bulletin an article saying that it was the noteworthy feat by Kim Hyong Jik that he brought up President Kim Il Sung to be a great revolutionary.

Nepal's newspaper The Majodur said that his idea of "Jiwon" (aim high) has been successfully carried forward by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.