Samir Diyab, chief of the Lebanese Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, said that Kim Jong Il developed in depth the Juche idea and thus gave perfect answers to all the theoretical and practical issues arising in the revolution and construction.

He is the eternal leader of the Workers' Party of Korea as he developed the Party into the guiding force of the Korean society, Samir Diyab said.

He implanted firm consciousness of independence in the popular masses, bolstered up the single-minded unity of the whole society in every way and invariably held the socialist banner, Samir Diyab added.

Saber Ballul, head of the Department of the Political Faculty of University of Damascus in Syria, said that Kim Jong Il was a peerlessly great man who led the Korean people to victory and the leader of the people with noble personality.

The greatest of his feats is that he made the DPRK a world military power by pursuing the original Songun politics, Saber Ballul stated.

It is thanks to his Songun politics that the DPRK could decisively frustrate the aggressive moves of the imperialists, Saber Ballul stressed.

The official representative of the Greek Branch of the Korean Friendship Association lauded the Songun leadership feats of Kim Jong Il, expressing the determination to positively stage a solidarity movement to support the just cause of the Korean people.