When the President visited China, he heard a Chinese party leader admiring General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

About his impressions on his meeting with Kim Jong Il in Juche 72 (1983), the party leader told Kim Il Sung that Kim Jong Il was an experienced and seasoned statesman, who was so attractive.

He envied the President for being blessed with his peerless heir.

It is unusual for a statesman to express his admiration for other country's heir.

When the President met with Cambodian King Samdech Norodom Sihanouk in June 1988, he told him that he was blessed with his heir.

He said Kim Jong Il saw to it that the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, Kim Il Sung Stadium, Ice Rink, Changgwang Health Complex and Grand People's Study House were built to translate his plan into reality and Kim Jong Il was caring so much for his health.

As a visiting African president told Kim Il Sung that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had a master of creation, Kim Il Sung said the master was none other than Kim Jong Il.

The President personally dedicated a poem "Bright Star" to Kim Jong Il's 50th birthday.

The poem represents the President's trust in Kim Jong Il, who was enjoying profound reverence among the people for his extraordinary ideological wisdom, leadership ability and noble personality, as well as his happiness of being blessed with his heir, who succeeded to the revolutionary cause of Juche.