The President regarded it as his maxim to believe in people as in Heaven all his life and devoted his all to enabling the Korean people to lead a happy life with nothing to desire more in the world, the paper said, and went on:

He built the socialist self-supporting national economy, laying a firm foundation for providing the people with an abundant and highly civilized life.

Korea, once a backward agricultural state, turned into a socialist industrial state in a short span of time thanks to his wise leadership.

He regarded it as the supreme principle governing state activities to improve the standard of people's living and made sure that the line and all policies of the party and state reflected the requirements and wishes of the popular masses for independence.

He, regarding the popular masses as the most valuable being, saw to it that they held the position as the master of everything and played such role.

The President's desire is being translated into reality thanks to General Secretary Kim Jong Il.