Holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the Supreme Commander enabled the Korean people to have the great honor of being blessed with the illustrious leaders generation after generation and provided them with a sure guarantee for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche started on Mt. Paektu with the might of Songun, says Rodong Sinmun.

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The history in which Kim Jong Il has led the Korean revolution, shouldering the heavy responsibility as the Supreme Commander, is an immortal heroic epic as he has firmly defended the sovereign dignity of the country and the nation by augmenting the country's military power in every way.

It is a glorious history in which he set a shining example of the times in accomplishing the cause of socialism with original Songun politics and a history of noble patriotic devotion in which he has aroused all the people and servicepersons with profound comradely love and trust, ushering in a new era of prosperity of the country.

Thanks to the invincible revolutionary armed forces which have grown to be a matchless revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu under the care of the great Songun brilliant commander, the DPRK has always emerged victorious in the political, military and diplomatic stand-off with the U.S. imperialists and fully demonstrated the dignity of Kim Il Sung nation generation after generation.

The dignity of the country and the nation advancing with the might of Songun is firmly guaranteed.

He formulated the Songun politics as the main political mode under socialism and has embodied it in all fields. This is a historic event as it brought about a signal turn in accomplishing the cause of socialism. Thanks to the Songun politics the advantages and might of Korean-style socialism centered on the popular masses have been more strikingly demonstrated and the Korean people are proud of being a people vital with the spirit of socialism and a revolutionary people waging a dynamic struggle, regarding socialism as their life and soul and part of their life.

Epoch-making changes and shining successes that have taken place on this land over the past more than decade are the fruition of the ties of profound love and trust, the sense of repaying them and obligation and the great harmonious whole formed between Kim Jong Il and the army and people of the DPRK.

His Songun idea and Songun politics serve as an ever-victorious banner of the Korean revolution and the Korean people have a rosy future and they are sure to triumph as they are advancing along the road of Songun.

Minju Joson calls upon all the people to more vigorously struggle for the prosperity of the DPRK under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.