He in the statement stressed that General Secretary Kim Jong Il has energetically worked to develop the WPK into a party which shows profound loving care for the people and devotes itself to them.

Kim Jong Il's leadership mode has become the important principle of the WPK's activities as can be seen in such slogans as "We Serve the People!" and "Let the Whole Party Go among the Masses!", the statement said, and went on:

He has developed the WPK into a party which looks after the people's destiny with responsibility and leads them to the future.

He ensured that popular policy has become the fixed policy of the WPK with the warmest loving care for the people.

He unfolded a blueprint for building a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation toward the end of the last century when the DPRK was suffering from the worst trial by the imperialists' offensive to stifle it.

The successful launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 in April this year marked a historic event that heralded the advent of a thriving nation.

Today the WPK is leading the Korean people in their gigantic drive to open the gate to a great prosperous and powerful nation in 2012 marking the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, the founder of socialist Korea.

Absolute and unlimited are the Korean people's support and trust in the WPK with Kim Jong Il as its general secretary, it concluded.