Ibrahim Mantu, former deputy president of the Senate of the National Assembly of Nigeria, said that Kim Il Sung embarked upon the road of revolution in his early years and waged an arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, achieving the liberation of the country, and led revolution and construction, always giving priority to the interests of the people.

Kim Il Sung's revolutionary life was a brilliant model for the world progressives, he stressed.

C. P. Mainali, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), noted that the President believed in people as in Heaven and devoted his all to their happiness, always finding himself among them.

The President was a great statesman and popular leader recognized by the world, he said, adding that he would be always with the progressives.

Martin Lotscher, chairman of the Switzerland-Korea Committee, noted that the President dedicated himself to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of its people, stressing that his cause is being successfully carried out by leader Kim Jong Il.