The Indian newspaper Awaking on May 26 carried an article titled "Noteworthy event in history of WPK".

Noting that Kim Jong Il performed undying exploits while leading the WPK for decades, the article went on:

From the beginning of his work at the WPK Central Committee he paid great attention to the unity of the whole party in thought and purpose and made sure that the whole party is thoroughly modeled on the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, the Juche idea, and turned the WPK into an ideologically pure entity, an integral organization and the party which achieved the unity of actions.

Kim Jong Il's party-building exploits are part of the important legacies he left for the country and its people and the ever-lasting foundation guaranteeing the eternal prospect and victory of the WPK.

The Bangladeshi paper Dainik Probat on May 21 carried an article titled "For the people".

It said that Kim Jong Il fully demonstrated his personality as a popular statesman for nearly five decades since he started work at the WPK Central Committee on June 19, 1964.

His politics was based on love and trust, the article said, adding that the Korean people praise him as the tender-hearted father as he devoted his all to the people.

The Egyptian paper Al-Misaiya on May 25 carried an article titled "Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong Il and Korea Today".

The article said that the DPRK is vigorously advancing to be a socialist thriving nation despite immeasurable difficulties and ordeals and it would be unthinkable without his Songun politics.