Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Organizations and personages of different countries issued statements and articles on the occasion of the 112th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The Kuwait-DPRK Friendship Association and other Kuwaiti organizations in their statements said that President Kim Il Sung was an outstanding leader who provided the Korean people with freedom and liberation and built the DPRK into a socialist state independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence and a genuine internationalist who positively supported the just cause of the peoples of various countries.

Songchit Pullarp, chairman of the Organization for the Study of the Juche Idea of Thailand, said in a statement that the world has recorded a large number of great persons but no one is so deeply praised and revered by all people for centuries as President Kim Il Sung.

Vasile Orleanu, chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party of Romania, in his article posted on a website said that the progressive mankind is looking back upon the noble career of President Kim Il Sung, the father of socialist Korea and the greatest man in the 20th century, on the occasion of April 15.

The whole life of the President was, in a word, a devoted life for the country and its people, the article said.

The general secretary of Democratic Congo-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Association and the chairman of the Group for Study of Songun Policy Formed in Bandundu University of DR Congo in their statements praised the President, who devoted his all to the Korean revolution and the cause of global socialism and the cause of human independence, as the founder of the Juche idea, the benefactor of Korean national liberation and the great revolutionary. And they expressed the will to make positive contributions to the development of Africa by more widely disseminating the immortal Juche idea. -0-