It went on:

Kim Jong Il's is the greatest patriotism that holds the highest and the most shining position in the development of patriotic idea.

The idea of loving the country and the people and the Korean nation-first spirit now in full display among the army and the people in the DPRK would have been unthinkable without Kim Jong Il's patriotism.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism gives all-round answers to all theoretical and practical problems arising in carrying out the patriotic cause.

His whole life of patriotic devotion was noticed by intense loyalty by which he defended and exalted the country liberated and built by President Kim Il Sung.

The course of the Songun revolution covered by Kim Jong Il was a sacred one in which he made patriotism of the Workers' Party of Korea most powerful patriotism replete with the Songun idea and exalted it as model patriotism despite unprecedented hardships.

His patriotic devotion resulted in all creation demonstrative of the inexhaustible might of the DPRK including the political and ideological might, the potentials of self-supporting national economy as well as self-defensive nuclear deterrent and many grand edifices.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is a matchless patriot's life review of his ideas and theories and the most precious heritage he bequeathed down to posterity out of patriotism.

The article called upon the party, the army and the people to finish all the work he planned and pushed forward for the country and the people in order to translate his ideas and desire into a brilliant reality on this land.

Prosperity and glory are in store for the DPRK and its people advancing toward the high eminence of a thriving nation under the uplifted slogan "Forward to Final Victory!" put forward by the dear respected Kim Jong Un, the article concluded.