Garib Newaz, president of the Bangladesh People's League and the chairman of the Bangladesh Self-Reliance Research Centre, said this in his statement on February 8.

He went on:

He comprehensively systemized the Juche idea, a great idea steering the era of independence, providing progressive humankind with it.

He was a prominent leader of the Korean people and the world progressive people struggling to realize independence.

We are sure that the Songun leadership of the dear respected H.E. Kim Jong Un, a reliable successor to the revolutionary cause of H.E. Kim Jong Il, would bring the Korean people and progressive humankind greater victory and glory.