L'Avenir, a newspaper of DR Congo, devoted one whole page to an article titled "Workers' Party of Korea and Great Leader Kim Jong Il" with his photo.

June 19, 1964 is a historic day in the development of the WPK, the paper said, adding:

Leader Kim Jong Il set forth ideas and theories for the exciting era through his energetic ideo-theoretical activities.

Thanks to him, the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, became the guiding idea of the era of independence.

India's paper Indian and World Event ran an article titled "Event to Be Specially Recorded in the History of the WPK", which said:

The great leader Kim Jong Il performed great feats while guiding the WPK for decades.

Since he started his work at the WPK Central Committee, he had paid deep attention to the unity and cohesion of the whole party in ideology and purpose and modeled the entire party on the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung.

Thanks to him, the WPK had been consolidated into an ideological pure entity, an integral organization and the party which achieved the unity of actions.

The Madrid Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Spain posted on its website an article praising his feats for party building.