La Prosperite, the paper of DR Congo, on Dec. 7 dedicated one whole page to an article titled "Outstanding thinker and theoretician" and others under the headline "On the occasion of the ninth anniversary of demise of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il" together with a photo of the smiling Chairman.

The paper said that Kim Jong Il had authored many works to illuminate the way for the Korean people and other world progressives and made great contributions to accomplishing the cause of socialism and the cause of independence against imperialism.

A website of the Arab-Korean Cooperation Council and the Nepalese internet magazine Nepal Today on Dec. 5 and 8 carried photos of Kim Jong Il and articles titled "During the last moments of life" and "The memory of a great man".

An Egyptian newspaper on Dec. 4 carried an article titled "Exploits performed on behalf of the cause of global peace" illustrated with the photo of the Chairman. The article stressed that the exploits the Chairman performed on behalf of the cause of global peace would be recorded in human history.

The British Association for the Study of Songun Policy, the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Korean Friendship Association UK and the British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula on Dec. 2 posted on a website a joint article dealing with the ideological and theoretical exploits of the Chairman and his Songun leadership exploits.