He praised Kim Jong Il as an extraordinary thinker and theoretician and outstanding statesman.

The Songun politics pursued by Kim Jong Il is the basic political mode of socialist Korea, he said, and went on:

The Songun politics helped the DPRK remarkably bolster its defense capability and demonstrate its might as a military power which no formidable enemy dares attack.

The present complicated international political situation clearly proves how just the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il is.

Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, and Hasanul Huq Inu, chairman of the Central Executive Committee Bangladesh National Socialist Party, issued a joint statement on the same day.

The Songun politics pursued by the dear respected Kim Jong Un by carrying forward the cause of Kim Jong Il is increasing the hope for the future of the progressive people who want to live in an independent new world, the statement stressed.