Tin Tun, director of the Myanmar Medical Research Institute, said:

The world progressive people's respect and yearning for HE Kim Jong Il are growing deeper with passage of time.

He reliably defended the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation from the hostile forces' vicious moves by pursuing the original Songun politics.

Maung Maung Naing, director of the Myanmar Mit Tarmor Publishing House, said that they pay the highest tribute to HE Kim Jong Il who dedicated his all to the human cause of independence, adding:

His ideology and lines became the eternal banner showing the road ahead of mankind and his feats serve as an eternal foundation guaranteeing the prosperity of the DPRK and the rosy future of its people and the global peace and security.

His august name and undying feats will be kept in the minds of the Korean people and the world's progressives forever.

Ali Garjooli, a writer and journalist of Algeria, said that the great changes taking place in the DPRK would have been unthinkable without leadership of Kim Jong Il. He devoted all his life to the country and the people, and the feats of the peerlessly great man will be handed down from generation to generation, he added.