The Indian newspaper Tourism Era said:

The core of Kim Jong Il's personality was love for the people.

He pursued benevolent politics rare to be found in the world as he loved the people so much.

It was his outlook on life to devotedly serve the people.

He considered the people's wishes and interests as a yardstick and a starting point for his thinking and practical activities and deemed it as the most important issue to meet them under any circumstances.

The Indonesian newspaper Suara Karya recalled Kim Jong Il said it was his greatest wish to enable the Korean people to live a well-off life early as possible.

The mayor of Braso do Norte City, Santa Catarina State of Brazil said that Kim Jong Il was a state leader recognized by the world.

There would be no one in the world like him who enjoyed so boundless reverence from his people, he added.

The chairman of the Vladivostok City Assembly of Russia said that all the amazing successes in the DPRK would be unthinkable without the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, adding that he was a peerless statesman and incarnation of patriotism.

The chairman of the Romanian Workers' Association noted Kim Jong Il was not only a great leader but tender-hearted father of the Korean people.

The Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea in an article posted on its Internet website said history does not know such great man as Kim Jong Il who devoted all his life to the people.