The newspaper in an article titled "Invincible military power and Kim Jong Il" said that his election provided a sure guarantee for the DPRK to display its might as an invincible military power.

He has turned the Korean People's Army into an elite one, it said.

He paid deep attention to intensifying the military and political training at the KPA units and improving the servicepersons' material and cultural life, the article added. He also made sure that the traditional army-people unity of the Korean society was brought into full bloom.

It said that he converted the whole country into an impregnable fortress and built a strong national defense industry, laying a solid material and technological foundation of a self-defensive military power.