The Political and Social Council of the Russian Social Movement Benseremos said on Jan. 7:

We extend sincere congratulations to the party and state leadership, scientists and all other people of the DPRK on their fresh scientific and technological progress.

We hope that the Korean people will bolster up defence capability and economic might and achieve peace and prosperity.

It is our hope that the Korean people will register successes in the field of space development and firmly defend peace on the Korean Peninsula by bolstering nuclear deterrence.

The Ethiopian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism said on Jan. 8:

The spectacular success in the H-bomb test enabled the DPRK proudly join the advanced ranks of nuclear weapons states having even H-bomb.

The DPRK's access to H-bomb standing against the U.S. threatening it with huge nuclear weapons of various types is the legitimate right for self-defence by a sovereign state and a just step which allows no one to slander it.

Genuine peace can be defended and guaranteed only when one remains strong.

We support the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people bolstering their nuclear deterrent by taking hold on the new line of simultaneously developing the two fronts.