It noted in an article the President's life was the one devoted to the people, and he believed in people as in Heaven and took it as his firm political idea.

Recalling that he regarded the people as his best teacher, it said he visited the workers of Kangson, kindling the torch of the Chollima Movement to rage throughout the country, and led the Korean people to successfully carry out the historic task of socialist industrialization in a short span of time.

It noted the President wrote in his reminiscences "With the Century" believing in people as in Heaven was his cherished view, adding the Juche-oriented principle of trusting the popular masses as the masters of the revolution and construction was his most avowed political faith and this suffices to clearly prove that he was the genuine popular leader.