He said that during his stay in the DPRK he saw the Korean people effecting a great leap forward in all fields of economic construction, adding that many countries are now finding themselves in confusion due to the aftermath of the financial crisis but the DPRK is demonstrating its dignity and might to the world by dint of Songun.

The validity and vitality of the Juche idea fathered by President Kim Il Sung have been proved in practice, he noted, and continued:

The Korean people have firmly maintained the principle of independence in politics, self-support in the economy and self-reliance in national defence.

They are registering world-startling shining successes true to General Secretary Kim Jong Il's plan for building a great prosperous and powerful nation.

Socialist Korea, the homeland of Juche, is now seething with a new great revolutionary surge.

The Korean people full of optimism and confidence in the future are accelerating the building of an economic power on the basis of the strong self-supporting national economy and the powerful military force.

I am sure that the Korean people rallied close around Kim Jong Il will build a great prosperous and powerful nation without fail.