The Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar Almassay said:

The core of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration is the idea of By Our Nation Itself.

This is a brilliant fruit of HE Kim Jong Il's independent idea.

He clarified in many works that the country's reunification should be realized on the principle of national independence, and had adhered to it as the consistent and unshakable stand.

And he provided the first historic inter-Korean summit with his warm love for the nation and bold decision.

The Nepalese online magazine Nepal Today said:

The idea of By Our Nation Itself can be called a product of HE Kim Jong Il's noble intention for great national unity.

He indicated the way for reunification by setting forth the five-point policy for great national unity towards the end of the last century when confrontation and mistrust festered in the Korean Peninsula.

Thanks to him, a new era of national independence and great national unity, called the June 15 era of reunification, was opened up in the peninsula.

The Cambodian State Radio lauded the feats of Kim Jong Il for national reunification, stressing that the prospect of Korea's reunification is now bright thanks to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un who has creditably carried forward HE

Kim Jong Il's idea for national reunification.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization posted on its internet homepage an article supporting the Panmunjom Declaration on June 10.