The July 12th issue of the Cambodian newspaper Pracheachon carried an article titled "Kim Il Sung, upholding the banner of independence" with a photo of President Kim Il Sung acknowledging the enthusiastic cheers of the military paraders.

The article said:

The Korean people frustrated the invasion by the U.S. imperialists and won a great victory in the war nearly 60 years ago.

Their victory was attributable to the outstanding military leadership and Juche-oriented military war methods of Kim Il Sung.

He put forward the original war methods so that the Korean People's Army could defeat the enemies in every battle and bring earlier the final victory in the war.

Baluchistan Times of Pakistan carried an article under the title of "Ironed-willed brilliant commander" on July 15.

Kim Il Sung forced U.S. imperialism that boasted of being the "strongest" in the world to meet the fate of a setting sun for the first time in history with his wise leadership over the Korean army and people and ushered in a new era of surge in the struggle against the U.S. and other imperialists, the article said.

The world progressives praise him as an ever-victorious and iron-willed brilliant commander, a great strategist and symbol of victory in the anti-imperialist struggle, it concluded.