Kim Jong Il's gaining of the supreme commandership of the KPA was a manifestation of the Korean people's profound trust in him, the statement said, and went on:

Peace has been preserved on the Korean Peninsula thanks to his Songun politics and rare commanding art.

He displayed his distinguished qualities as an invincible and iron-willed commander in the days of commanding the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK.

Thanks to his Songun politics the KPA has developed into a mainstay and driving force of the revolution and the DPRK into a socialist military power having nuclear deterrent, a country which launched satellites.