Rodong Sinmun says:

August 15 is the day of national resurrection when the Korean people were reborn to be a dignified people who independently and creatively carve out their destiny after being freed from the yoke of colonial slavery. It marked a turning point in the history as the DPRK embarked on the new road of its own development as a full-fledged independent state.

The President's history of building a rich and powerful country is the history in which he paved a unique way of building socialism under the banner of the Juche idea, aroused the popular masses to bring about eye-opening miracles and changes in all the fields of the country and laid an eternal foundation ensuring the prosperity of the generations to come.

The socialist country built by the President is now greeting a great heyday of prosperity under the Songun leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

The DPRK led by Kim Jong Il is an invincible socialist power fully demonstrating its dignity and might thanks to Songun and a promising country where the spirit of creation and leap forward runs high.

The wishes of the President will be translated into a brilliant reality thanks to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il, who is successfully carrying forward the cause of building a rich and powerful country, and the single-minded unity of all the servicepersons and people around the Workers' Party of Korea.

The daily calls for dynamically accelerating the general march for opening the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation full of confidence and optimism with the pride and honor of being members of the Kim Il Sung nation displaying the invincible national power under the banner of Songun and thus bringing about a great surge and great innovations unprecedented in the history of the country.

Minju Joson says that the DPRK is sure to emerge a victor in the drive for building a great prosperous and powerful nation as long as there are the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il who is leading the building of a thriving socialist nation and the heroic people who worked miracles and feats in the struggle for the liberation of the country and its prosperity under the leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.