He said it was his greatest desire to enable the Korean people to live as well as others at an early date, the bulletin said, and went on:

The people's happiness was his greatest desire because it was also the desire of President Kim Il Sung.

The President is the father of socialist Korea who devoted his all to the people's happiness through his life.

Kim Jong Il regarded it as the most sacred duty and the greatest mission to realize the President's desire.

He conducted energetic activities by devoting his all to realizing this desire.

It was his ideal to build a thriving socialist nation in which the national power is strong, everything prospers and the people enjoy a happy life with nothing to desire more in the world.

It was Kim Jong Il who felt joy at seeing the laughter of the happy people growing louder.