The Swiss Committee for Remembering the 24th Anniversary of Demise of President Kim Il Sung, the Swiss Organizing Committee for the International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu, the Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in a joint statement on July 1 said:

On the occasion of July 8 the Korean people are paying high tribute to President Kim Il Sung with ardent yearning for him.

The progressives are also recollecting with deep emotion the exploits of the President for global independence.

President Kim Il Sung is alive in the hearts of the Korean people and the world progressives.

The British Association for the Study of Songun Policy in a statement on June 27 praised the President as a peerless patriot, brilliant strategist, champion of independence and people's father.