Pyongyang, November 27 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il's answers to questions put by ITAR-TASS of Russia have evoked a great echo on the world public as the absolute truth that helps defend the peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world and brightly shows the road ahead of the human cause of independence.

The director general of ITAR-TASS said that the answers aroused tremendous response from among the Russian people and were reported by hundreds of domestic and foreign media to become a great event of the public.

The Dagestan Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Policy of Russia in a statement praised the answers as important action guidelines for further strengthening the Russia-DPRK friendly relations and ensuring the global peace and stability.

The answers give great strength and courage to the peoples of countries aspiring after independence, stressed the chairman of the Guinean National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea.

The Movement for Peace and Socialism of Italy in a statement said that the DPRK government's stand on peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world, denuclearization of the peninsula in particular, clarified by Kim Jong Il in his answers, is most fair and aboveboard.

The chairman of the Ethiopian Youth Study Group of the Juche Idea stated that the Korean people would win only victories in the future, too, rallied closer around Kim Jong Il.

The coordinator of the National Coordinating Committee of the Workers' Party of Mexico said that Kim Jong Il has raised the dignity and honor of the Korean nation to the maximum and made signal contributions to the Korean revolution and global independence.

The chairman of the Finnish Mangyongdae Committee for Commemorating the Centenary of Birth of President Kim Il Sung praised Kim Jong Il as the great master of diplomacy who has displayed distinguished caliber in consolidating not only the DPRK-Russia friendship but the world peace, stability and friendship through his energetic external activities.