Saber Ballul, head of Department of the Political Faculty of University of Damascus of Syria, praised Kim Jong Il for developing and enriching the Juche idea as the guiding idea in the era of independence and firmly defending the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK through his energetic ideological and theoretical activities and original Songun politics and turning the country into a large harmonious family.

Julio Cesar Pantigoso Barretto, president of the Chiclayo and Trujillo Branches of the Peruvian-Korean Institute of Culture and Friendship, said that Peru significantly marked the birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il as a great event, praising him for performing exploits in building a thriving nation and accomplishing the cause of national reunification and the global socialist cause.