Kim Jong Il was the outstanding thinker-theoretician who developed and enriched the Juche idea founded by Kim Il Sung, the article said, and went on:

What holds a specially important place in his ideo-theoretical activities is that he developed in depth the Songun idea based on the Juche idea to suit the new demand of the times and formulated the Songun politics as the basic political mode under socialism, thus providing a powerful ideological and theoretical guarantee for the socialist cause to always emerge victorious under any grim circumstance and condition.

He was the great master of independent politics.

He performed great feats in defending the world peace and stability and building an independent new world through his energetic external activities.

The visits to China and Russia paid by him several times in recent years are estimated as historic events of weighty significance in easing the situation in Northeast Asia, realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and ensuring the world peace and stability.