Kim Jong Il has strengthened the KPA as an invincible army, frustrating the moves of the imperialists for aggression and guaranteeing the security of socialist Korea, the statement said.

He formulated the Songun politics as a main political mode of socialism and embodied it in all fields, placing the overall national power on the highest level, the statement noted, and went on:

The cause of socialism was saved from a crisis and the invincibility of the DPRK demonstrated before the world as Kim Jong Il with faith in sure victory and iron will has led the army and people of the DPRK.

Kim Jong Il defended the country from the moves of the imperialist allied forces to bring down socialism and stifle the DPRK. He also unrolled a plan for building a thriving nation and laid a springboard for its realization.

The statement expressed full solidarity for the Korean people in their just struggle.