February 16 is the significant day when Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Korean people, was born, the statement said, praising him as the prominent thinker-theoretician recognized by the international community.

Noting that there are some features in Kim Jong Il's ideological and theoretical activities, it cited data to prove that they are consistent with thoroughgoing inheritance to carry forward the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung pure and clean, new discovery and innovation. They are also clear in the features of the era as they correctly show the road ahead of the people in keeping with the specific conditions of the developing reality, very profound in the width and depth of ideological and theoretical contents and universal as they give perfect answers to all problems arising in the revolution and construction, it stressed.

It expressed the highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who has further developed and enriched the treasure house of the human history of thought through his distinguished ideological and theoretical activities.