Russian President Putin, at a recent meeting with media persons, said that Kim Jong Un was an unquestioned competent and perfect statesman.

Mentioning the developments on Korea in the New Year, he said that he thinks that HE Kim Jong Un won the confrontation with the U.S.

HE Kim Jong Un attained his strategic goal by making the DPRK possess the rocket with a nuclear payload capable of reaching every part of the territory of the enemy country, Putin added.

Finarai Vijayan, prime minister of Kerala State of India, said that he pays his unreserved tribute to Kim Jong Un of north Korea for strongly standing against the U.S. imperialists, adding that it was setting a more wonderful example in countering the imperialist forces.

Buchanan, who was a senior aide to former U.S. presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, in an article contributed to a newspaper said that last year was the most impressive one for the leader of north Korea, stressing that he is winning the confrontation with the U.S.

Manuel Arismendi, official representative of the Chilean Branch of the Korean Friendship Association, said that Korea is now greeting the greatest heyday of its development under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, adding that a prophecy of a foreign newspaper that he would be recorded in the 5 000-year history of Korea as another great national hero and patriot is coming true.