Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the New Socialist Party of Romania, in an article posted on its website praised Kim Jong Il for dedicating himself to the people's happiness and national reunification all his life and making a big contribution to global peace and security.

The Korean people are performing world-startling miracles in the drive for building a socialist power under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un, true to the behests of Comrade Kim Jong Il, despite the ever more undisguised moves of the imperialist allied forces to stifle the DPRK, the chairman noted.

Guy Dupre, president of the France-Korea Friendship Association, in a statement praised the sacred revolutionary career of Kim Jong Il who is boundlessly revered by all people for his gigantic exploits which are no match to any other great man in the world.

The chief of the Italian Organization for Friendship and Support to the DPRK in a statement said the ideology and theories advanced by Kim Jong Il will serve as eternal guidelines in the struggle to accomplish the cause common to humankind.