Hessou Kohovi, chairman of the Benin-Korea Amicable Association "Long Live Kim Jong Il, Supreme Leader" who doubles as chairman of the Benin National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, said:

President Kim Il Sung made painstaking efforts to implement the cause of global independence all his life.

He gave clear-cut solution to the theoretical and practical issues arising in carrying out global independence.

Indeed, he was a great leader who greatly encouraged the struggle of the world progressives for independence.

Pascal Zouncheme, chief of the Benin Group for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and rector at the Cotonou Institute of Journalism of Benin, praised HE Kim Jong Il as a prominent leader who turned the DPRK into an invincible political, ideological and military power with his original Songun politics.

Marshal Kim Jong Un is leading the Korean people's struggle for building a thriving socialist nation by successfully carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered and victoriously advanced by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he added.