Many of his works were published as collections of his works and pamphlets including Vol. 1~15 of "Selected Works of Kim Jong Il", Vol. 1~10 of "Accomplishing Juche Revolutionary Cause" and "On the Military Idea and the Songun Politics of Our Party".

Those works are the results of Kim Jong Il's endless thinking, inquiry and wisdom and energies he has devoted to accomplishing the Songun revolutionary cause of the Workers' Party of Korea and developing the revolutionary armed forces with his rare insight and serve as an encyclopedia which comprehensively deals with great Songun idea and theory.

His works scientifically clarify the Songun revolutionary line run through with the Songun idea, something never known to mankind before, and its brilliant embodiment, the principles of the Songun politics and tasks and ways for implementing them and give perfect answers to the theoretical and practical questions arising in all fields including politics, military affairs, economy and culture.

Kim Jong Il published work "'Let Us Defend with Our Very Lives the Party Central Committee Headed by Respected Comrade Kim Il Sung!', The People's Army Should Put Up This Slogan Higher" on Aug. 25, Juche 49 (1960), when he started his Songun revolutionary leadership. In this work he noted that defending the Party and leader with our lives provides a decisive guarantee for the victory of the Korean revolution and set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the People' Army to dynamically conduct combat and political trainings under the slogan of devotedly defending the leader.

He in his works published recently including "The Workers of Kangson Should Take the Lead in the Drive for Effecting a New Great Revolutionary Surge in Building a Great Prosperous and Powerful Nation" called on the army and the people of the DPRK to bring about a new great revolutionary surge in the drive for building a great prosperous and powerful nation true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the Party.

The works evoked great response among the revolutionary parties and progressives in the world for their profound ideas and theories. At least 354,000 copies of them were translated into nearly 70 languages and came off the press in about 80 countries in the new century.

There were more than 500 activities for studying and distributing the works in at least 120 countries and regions in 2006. The following year witnessed a total of more than 600 events of diverse forms in at least 130 countries and regions. And 2008 saw at least 3,000 functions held in over 150 countries and regions for the same purpose.