The revolutionary career of President Kim Il Sung was a glorious history of a great revolutionary and a peerless patriot who performed undying feats in the struggle for carrying out the cause of independence of working people for 70 years with his distinguished wisdom, outstanding leadership ability and noble virtue which no other great man in the world can match, the letter said, and continued:

The President founded the immortal Juche idea, the Songun idea, the acme of human wisdom, for the first time in history, thus brightly illumining the road to be followed by the times and humankind. He also defeated the formidable U.S. and Japanese imperialist enemies under the banner of Songun, thus strikingly demonstrating the dignity and might of the country and nation.

The President successfully solved the issue of succession to the leadership, foreseeing the future accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche with his clairvoyant wisdom, thus enabling the Korean nation to be blessed with the illustrious leaders generation after generation. This is shining as a feat of special mention as it provided a sure guarantee for the prosperity of Kim Il Sung's nation and the future of a thriving nation.

The President, the world political elder, propounded the idea of global independence and ushered in the era of a fresh surge in the anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle, thereby positively encouraging progressive humankind in its dynamic struggle to build a peaceful and independent new world free from the imperialists' domination and subjugation by its concerted efforts.

It is thanks to your strong pluck and tested leadership that the DPRK, demonstrating its might as a political, ideological and military power, has remarkably strengthened the self-support and Juche character of its national economy on the basis of cutting-edge science and technology and effected a great revolutionary surge in the drive to make a decisive breakthrough toward the building of an economic power and the improvement of people's standard of living by dint of them.

We will work hard to defend and glorify the era of "By our nation itself" under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and thus open a new phase in the movement for independent reunification without fail, the letter concluded.