The article said:

The untimely demise of the great General Kim Jong Il is the greatest loss to the Korean and world revolutions and the bitterest sorrow of the Korean nation and the world progressive mankind.

His whole life was a noble life of a great leader who devoted his all to realizing the idea and cause of President Kim Il Sung.

He made ceaseless journey of field guidance, undergoing all sorts of hardships nobody experienced, only for the prosperity of Korea and the people's happiness.

Referring to the undying feats he performed for the Korean revolution and the human cause of independence, the article went on:

He won the respect of the world progressive mankind as the peerlessly elder statesman and the sun of the 21st century.

This was the boundless praise and eruption of deep reverence for him who steered the cause of independence, holding high the banner of the anti-imperialist struggle in the whole period of his guidance over the revolution.

The dear respected Kim Jong Un, the great successor to the revolutionary cause of Juche and the supreme leader of the party, army and people of the DPRK, is standing in the van of the Juche revolution, the Songun revolution.

This is, indeed, the greatest fortune of the Korean nation as well as of the progressive mankind.

The heart of Kim Jong Il stopped beating but his lofty august name and benevolent image will always be cherished in the hearts of the world progressive mankind.