Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- A French organization and a Nigerian personage made public statements on Oct. 21, as regards the fact that General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave answers to questions put by ITAR-TASS of Russia.

In his answers Kim Jong Il clarified the clear stands toward the prospect of development of the traditional DPRK-Russia relations, the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula and the six-party talks, relationship with the U.S. and Japan and other matters, the France-Korea Friendship Association in its statement noted, adding:

The progressive forces in France and the world peace-loving forces extend full support to the DPRK's principled stand to resume the six-party talks at an early date without preconditions and realize the denuclearization of the whole Korean Peninsula on the principle of simultaneous action.

M. M. Alhassan, chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, in his statement praised Kim Jong Il as the genius of diplomacy who has steadily developed the friendly relations among countries with his energetic external activities.

He is defender of justice and peace, creator of happiness and father of all people, the statement stressed.