Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday dedicates an editorial to the anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of Songun revolutionary leadership. It calls on all members of the Workers' Party of Korea, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army and people to unite closer around Kim Jong Il, single-mindedly remain true to the Songun leadership of the WPK and translate the plans of the WPK into realities in all work sites for a great surge and thus enter with pride the gate to a prosperous and powerful nation.

The editorial goes on:

The immutable truth that Korea can do anything if it is determined has been fully proven in all fields including politics, military affairs, economy, culture and this stirring reality of the country is the brilliant fruition of the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.

The Songun revolutionary leadership of the WPK serves as a banner for building a great independent power and a treasured sword for building an impregnable military power and bringing a new era of dramatic changes to the country, the editorial notes, and continues:

As Kim Jong Il has remarkably reinforced the driving force for the revolution and the great unity between the army and people during the days of the Songun revolutionary leadership for more than half a century, the country has won one victory after another in the building of a prosperous and powerful country.

He has led the confrontation with imperialism and the U.S. to victory generation after generation by dint of original Songun politics, in particular, and turned the country into an invincible military power.

The army and people of the DPRK are now dashing ahead like the wind towards a prosperous and powerful nation through a high-pitched drive for a great revolutionary upswing with the might redoubled on the road of Songun. They are the performers of heroic feats as they are bringing about uninterrupted epoch-making innovations in the revolutionary soldier spirit and by dint of the great unity between the army and people.

It is the greatest fortune and pride of the Korean people to live and struggle in the motherland of Songun politics led by the illustrious commander of Mt. Paektu.

An immensely rosy future is in store for us as we are under the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il.