In an article titled "View of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il on Armed Forces" the bulletin said:

Kim Jong Il has the soldier-centered view on armed forces. It is his constant view that the combat capability of an army and the victory in war depend on how to prepare the soldiers.

In his early years he avidly read the theories on modern military science and made public works and talks on them.

He formulated the unique military view that the soldiers play a pivotal role in army building and activities and the victory in war depends mainly on the soldiers.