It was the noble will and desire of Kim Il Sung to build a thriving nation on this land where there is powerful national strength, everything thrives and people lead an affluent life with no more to desire in the world, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:

The noble will of Kim Il Sung for building a thriving nation which he regarded as his lifelong motto till the last moments of his life is being successfully materialized by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

It is the unshakable resolution and will of Kim Jong Il to fling open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation at any cost in 2012, the centenary of birth of Kim Il Sung.

Kim Jong Il set an example of noble moral obligation unprecedented in the world history and worked hard to make the country, the biggest legacy left by Kim Il Sung, rich and prosperous, despite all trials and difficulties. These immortal feats performed by Kim Jong Il are shining brightly in the history of the country.

Under the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il who is upholding the President's cause of the nation building, a torch of a new great revolutionary surge was kindled on this land and a vigorous drive for effecting great innovation and making a leap forward is underway, accelerating the day of victory when the gate of a thriving nation will be opened.

As long as there is Kim Jong Il the undying revolutionary life of Kim Il Sung and the feats performed by him for nation-building are brilliantly shining along with the victorious advance of the cause of building a great prosperous and powerful nation and they always inspire the army and people of the DPRK to carve out a rosy morrow. Kim Il Sung's idea and line of nation-building serve as an ever-victorious banner of building a thriving nation and his revolutionary life encourages the army and people out in the drive for building a thriving nation to give full play to their patriotic zeal like an erupting volcano. The epoch-making miracles are being worked on this land thanks to the faith, pluck and matchless mettle possessed by Kim Il Sung. A harmonious whole of Kim Il Sung and the people is being further consolidated in the stirring reality in which the people advance toward the bright future of a thriving nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, holding Kim Il Sung in

high esteem as the eternal sun of Juche.

Minju Joson calls upon all the people to make a dynamic struggle for accomplishing the cause of Kim Il Sung, the revolutionary cause of Juche, under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.