Marwan Sudah, chairman of the Arab Committee for Solidarity with Korean People and Supporting the Reunification of Korea, said in the statement that leader Kim Jong Il turned the DPRK into a world power and provided the Korean people with independent and dignified life in the face of all sorts of aggression and challenge by the imperialists.

He pointed out that Kim Jong Il was a peerlessly great man who laid down ideo-theoretical guidelines to powerfully advance the cause of independence against imperialism, adding that his undying exploits will remain long in the hearts of mankind.

Samir Diyab, chief of the Lebanese Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, stressed in the statement that leader Kim Jong Il developed and enriched the Juche idea with his distinguished ideo-theoretical wisdom and gigantic revolutionary practices and consolidated the single-minded unity of the DPRK society as firm as a rock.

The chief said that the DPRK was able to shine all over the world as a fortress of independence, a fortress of socialism, under Kim Jong Il's guidance, stressing that the DPRK works hard for true international justice under the wise guidance of H.E. Kim Jong Un, who is carrying forward the cause of leader Kim Jong Il.