Mustafa Al Safarini, chairman of the Arab Information Centre in China, said that Kim Jong Il worked heart and soul till the last moments of his life under the motto of believing in the people as in Heaven.

The chancellor of Bungkarno University of Indonesia said that as Kim Jong Il had so great and noble outlook on the people which only a genuine father of the people can possess, he is alive in the hearts of the Korean people and all other world progressives.

Igor Jurisic, chairman of the Slovenia－Korea Friendship Association, praised Kim Jong Il for building the country into a powerful socialist state by dint of his original Songun politics, adding that his feats will shine forever with the century.

Jon Arni Halldorsson, general secretary of the Iceland-DPRK Friendship and Cultural Society, said that Kim Jong Il's idea and cause are being successfully carried forward by supreme leader Kim Jong Un.