Kim Jong Il consolidated the DPRK into an invincible socialist bulwark with his distinguished leadership and devoted his all to the people's happiness, regarding it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in Heaven, the chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia said, adding:

He conducted energetic external activities for global peace and stability and friendship and solidarity among peoples, holding aloft the banner of independence against imperialism, and thus made gigantic contributions to realizing the cause of human independence.

The red flag of victory, raised by President Kim Il Sung and hold fast to by Kim Jong Il, is now flying higher in the DPRK.

The chairperson of the C.C., Party of Communists of Russia said that the world progressives are looking back on Kim Jong Il's noble life, together with the Korean people, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his demise.

The secretary of the Committee of the Republic of Buryatia of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation stressed it was a miracle in the world history of politics that Kim Jong Il had reliably defended Korean socialism from the vicious challenges of the imperialists.

The chairman of the Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea praised Kim Jong Il as a prominent great person not only in the 20th century but in the 21st century.

A message to supreme leader Kim Jong Un was adopted at the meeting held by the Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea.