The Iranian paper Iran News on June 7 said in an article titled "Exploits leader Kim Jong Il performed in party building will shine long":

HE Kim Jong Il devoted his all to developing the WPK into the party of President Kim Il Sung in the whole period of leading it. He consolidated the WPK organizationally and ideologically and turned it into the guiding force of the Songun revolution.

The exploits Kim Jong Il performed in the party building will shine long with socialist Korea winning victories.

The Uruguayan paper La Juventud on June 6 carried the following article titled "WPK and General Secretary Kim Jong Il":

The idea and line of Kim Jong Il serve as the eternal guidelines of the WPK.

It is the precious fruition of his wise leadership that the DPRK is demonstrating its might as the satellite manufacturing and launching state and nuclear weapons state.

He will live forever with the ever-victorious WPK leading the general advance of the Korean people to build a thriving socialist nation.

The Lao papers Vatelao on June 10 and Vientiane Mai on June 12 and the Ugandan paper Sun Rise on June 13 carried articles praising him for turning the WPK into the ever-victorious iron-willed party and the DPRK into the political, ideological and military power no one dares provoke, holding high the banner of Juche and Songun.