Yehia Zakaria Khairullah, chairman of the Egyptian Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, said that Kim Jong Il's life was a great career unparalleled in history.

He continued:

Kim Jong Il had fully demonstrated from his childhood his disposition as a brilliant commander who would victoriously steer Korea.

He was praised by all people as father of the people and most brilliant man who devoted his all to the happiness of the people, leader of the new century who met all challenges of the imperialists and defended peace and security on the Korean Peninsula with the might of Songun.

He will always be alive in the hearts of progressive mankind.

Than Tun, general director for Administrative Affairs of the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited, noted that Kim Jong Il was the kind-hearted father of the people as he worked hard for the prosperity of the country and happiness of its people till the last moments of his life.

He stressed that Kim Jong Il turned the Workers' Party of Korea into the party of President Kim Il Sung, the state into a socialist power and the army into an invincible army by thoroughly embodying the revolutionary idea of the President in all fields, and put the dignity of the country and nation on the highest level.