Rodong Sinmun Saturday observes this in a signed article.

Steadfast is Kim Jong Il's revolutionary will to carry out the instructions of the President for national reunification, the article notes, and goes on:

Fully reflecting the aspiration and wishes of the nation for independent reunification and peace and prosperity, Kim Jong Il put forward the line and policy of national reunification replete with the spirit of national independence, considering the reunification issue from his Juche-based view.

Possessed of matchless and extraordinary political caliber, he has led the difficult and complicated movement for reunification along a straight road of victory without the slightest deviation and turns and twists through his noble patriotic leadership and paved the way for advancing the cause of national reunification with an unchallenged edge of the Juche-oriented patriotic forces for reunification.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il who has settled all the matters by relying on the concerted efforts of the popular masses the spirit of "By our nation itself" has become an idea common to the nation and the patriotic forces for reunification have rapidly grown stronger in south Korea, developing the reunification movement into a dynamic nationwide patriotic movement.

It is thanks to his noble benevolent politics that national reconciliation and unity have been put on a new phase and the driving force for national reunification has grown stronger than ever before.

Thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il who has energetically pushed forward the building of a great prosperous powerful nation and the movement for national reunification with the invincible People's Army as the mainstay of the revolution, the moves of the bellicose forces at home and abroad for confrontation against reunification and for a new war are being decisively checked and frustrated and the cause of independent reunification is advancing on its orbit.

Sure is the victory of the cause of national reunification as the Korean people are holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the father of the nation and a lodestar of national reunification.