On this occasion, the army and people of the DPRK recollect those days when Kim Jong Il were leading the Korean revolution with Songun (military-first) politics.

In the 1990s, he defined the politics as a principal mode of socialist politics and applied it to all fields of revolution and construction, ushering in a new era of the Juche-oriented revolution, the Songun era.

With the politics, he had won victories one after another in standoff with the U.S. imperialists.

On the basis of the principle that the army represents the party, the state and the people, he had strengthened the Korean People's Army into an invincible one.

With big efforts channeled to defence industry, he made it sure that the country was capable of manufacturing any kinds of latest weaponry and consolidated the modernization of the army, arming of the entire nation and fortifying of the whole country.

He had successfully turned the DPRK into a military power and a nuclear nation, while realizing the harmony between the army and the people.

By dint of the politics, he provided the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the keynote of which is to achieve the independent reunification of the Korean Peninsula by the Koreans themselves, and upgraded the country's prestige.