Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung was the father of socialist Korea and peerless patriot who founded the DPRK, the first socialist state centered on the popular masses in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years and provided an eternal foundation for prosperity, says Minju Joson Wednesday in a by-lined article.

The revolutionary exploits Kim Il Sung performed by providing the eternal foundation for the prosperity of the DPRK remain shinning forever as he laid solid political, ideological, military, material and technological foundations for the socialist state, the article notes, and goes on:

The immortal Juche idea founded by the President serves as a powerful theoretical and practical weapon which makes it possible for the DPRK to dash ahead along the road of creation and prosperity while weathering all sorts of storms. Today the Juche idea serves as invariable guidelines for the DPRK and its attractive power and vitality are being given fuller play in the struggle for building a thriving socialist nation.

The DPRK could proudly emerge a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, thanks to the wise leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, the organizer and guide for all victories of the Korean people.

The people's power in the DPRK founded and developed by the President serves as a powerful political weapon for the building of a thriving socialist nation.

The Korean People's Army could perform an epoch-making military miracle by defeating two formidable imperialisms in the last century and recorded brilliant merits in the protracted military confrontation with U.S. imperialism, postwar rehabilitation and socialist construction. This glorious history of the KPA would be unthinkable without the outstanding leadership of the President.

The undying feats performed by the President in building armed forces have become a solid foundation and precious asset for further strengthening the KPA and implementing the Songun politics.

Thanks to his energetic leadership the socialist industrialization was realized in the DPRK in a brief span of time and the country came to have strong socialist material and technological foundations.

The Korean people could emerge victorious in the Arduous March, the forced march, and open a bright prospect for effecting a new leap forward in the construction of an economic power thanks to the might of independent national economy.