Ghulam Rabbani, chairman of the Karachi Juche Study Center of Pakistan, said:

Kim Jong Il made energetic efforts for prosperity and reunification of Korea, happiness of the people and global independence.

He passed away at a time when a new historic turning point was brought about in the building of a prosperous socialist nation and the Korean revolution. This was a great loss to the Workers' Party of Korea and revolution and deep sorrow to the Korean people and progressive mankind.

The whole life of Kim Jong Il was, indeed, a brilliant one devoted to building an ideal socialist society in the DPRK and the paradise of people.

His exploits will shine forever.

Saber Ballul, head of a department of the Political Faculty of University of Damascus, said:

When December comes, the adherents of the Juche idea and the world revolutionaries are joining the Korean people in remembering Kim Jong Il in humble reverence.

Kim Jong Il was a great revolutionary and guardian of socialism who devoted all his life to the accomplishment of the socialist cause and the human cause of independence.

The Korean people brought about epoch-making changes in building a thriving socialist nation under his outstanding leadership.

Kim Jong Il's exploits will always be remembered by the Korean people and progressive mankind.