Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il, born with a noble disposition of the Mangyongdae family members to devote their all to others, not to themselves, did all he could for his comrades in his lifetime.

When starting to work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Jong Il exchanged greetings with officials and requested them to call him comrade.

He was of the view that relationship between the leader and officials was not commanding and obeying one but comradely relationship.

This view was a key to the success of his politics.

One day he said it was his ideological creed that he was inseparably linked with comrades and that without comrades, there would be no Kim Jong Il. He said it was his view of comrades.

In his lifetime Kim Jong Il spared no pain for his comrades. His uninterrupted field guidance tour of all parts of the country is also based on his strong sense of comradeship.

Grieving for the loss of such a great comrade, the Korean army and people are resolved to carry forward the revolutionary cause of Juche, upholding the leadership of Kim Jong Un, another great comrade.