Vishwanath, director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, said this when interviewed by KCNA on Feb. 20, while staying in the DPRK.

2012 will be a very significant year as it will commemorate the centenary of birth of President
Kim Il Sung, he noted, and continued:

The Korean people rallied close around General Secretary Kim Jong Il are making a dynamic drive to open the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation in the above-said year.

The adherents to the Juche idea are extending full support and solidarity to the Korean people in their endeavors to defend and glorify socialist Korea and build a thriving country true to the behest of the President.

Kim Jong Il has creditably carried forward the President's revolutionary cause. The DPRK is demonstrating its might as a great country because it is holding in high esteem Kim Jong Il who has unshakable faith, indomitable will and matchless courage and grit.