Pyongyang, November 9 (KCNA) -- Book "Kim Jong Il Encyclopedia" is a precious asset of mankind to be handed down through generations and a great masterpiece.

Personages of India stressed this at the ceremony for releasing the book in New Delhi on Nov. 2. They included Suneet Chopra, member of the C.C., Communist Party (Marxist) and secretary general of the All India Indo-Korean Friendship Association, and S. P. Pathak, chairman of the Indian Society for the Study of Works of Kim Jong Il.

Underlying the need to know well about the great history of leader Kim Jong Il, they said:

Any people who want to hew out their own destiny and transform their country and the world should read this book. If then, they will know well about how the DPRK could become a country so powerful.

To deeply grasp the Juche idea and the Songun idea, one should read this book. Let all of us follow the Juche idea and Kim Jong Il.

The book was brought out by the International Institute of the Juche Idea.