The chairman of the Karelia-DPRK Friendship Association of Russia said:

The demise of Kim Jong Il is the greatest loss to not only the Korean people but the world progressives.

He wisely led the Korean people in their efforts to build a thriving nation and achieve national reunification.

Under his Songun revolutionary leadership the DPRK has turned into a nuclear weapons state and achieved big successes in socialist construction.

The chairman of the External Relations Commission of the People's Party of Cambodia said:

The great HE Generalissimo Kim Jong Il wisely led the Korean people and turned the DPR of Korea into a prosperous country.

His great exploits are being successfully carried forward by HE Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

I wish the respected HE Kim Jong Un bigger success in his noble work.

The rector of College of Social Sciences of Kuwait University said:

Leader Kim Jong Il was the great statesman and philosopher.

It is our duty and moral obligation to honor the memory of him in the humblest reverence.

The editor-in-chief of Kuwait Times highly praised the Songun leadership exploits of Kim Jong Il before praying for his immortality.