The Bulgaria-Korea Friendship Association carried a portrait of smiling Kim Jong Il with some articles including "February 16 is the Day of Shining Star".

The bulletin praised him as the great leader of Koreans who devoted his all to the freedom and happiness of the people and victory of the socialist cause. It elaborated on his undying exploits for the human cause of independence.

The Bangladesh-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee carried an article titled "Eternal general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea", which said that though he passed away, the WPK upholds him as the eternal general secretary and regards his idea and line as its guidelines.

The WPK and the Korean people are regarding his idea and theories as the immutable truth in their general advance for building a thriving socialist country.

His Songun politics helped the DPRK hold the position of a military power.

It is thanks to his wise leadership that the DPRK is demonstrating its dignity and might as a satellite manufacturing and launching state as well as a nuclear weapons state.

He will always be with the ever-victorious WPK.