Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- One day has passed after the sad news that leader Kim Jong Il passed away.

Anyhow, the Korean army and people's yearning for him, father of the nation, is growing stronger as the time goes by.

On Dec. 20, too, countless people are coming to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and mosaics portraying the peerlessly great persons in different parts of the country.

They were shedding copious tears of grief at the loss of the sun of the nation, who had shared joy and sorrow with the people, always going among them.

Mirrored on every face of them ardently calling the leader is the determination to devotedly implement his behests.

Pak Chol Yong, a soldier of the Korean People's Army, said, noting that he had honor of having a picture taken some days ago when participating in the art performance of soldiers of companies, selected at the 35th KPA servicepersons' art festival, in the presence of the Supreme Commander.

He went on:

It seems it was yesterday when we swore to surely accomplish the cause of building a thriving nation and realizing the national reunification under his presence. But all of a sudden he left us, and I can hardly repress my deepest regret at his demise.

We will devotedly safeguard General Kim Jong Un with arms, closely rallied as one in mind around him, and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, the socialist cause, by all means true to the behests of Kim Jong Il.

Pak Chun Sil, a farmer of the Songam Vegetable Farm in Kim Chaek City, North Hamgyong Province, said she would work hard to increase grain production true to the behest of Kim Jong Il who worried so much for the improvement of the people's living standard.