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Kim Jong Il was an internationally recognized outstanding statesman, tender-hearted father of the Korean people and an illustrious commander of Songun who defended socialist Korea with matchless will and stratagem.

Since he started his work at the Central Committee of the WPK, it has been more firmly consolidated on the basis of the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung and steadily developed into the party absolutely supported and trusted by all people.

He steadily developed the undying Juche idea as the greatest revolutionary idea in the independence era, providing an ideological and theoretical weapon to the world progressive people.

Kim Jong Il defeated the imperialists' intensified moves against the DPRK with the original Songun leadership and turned the DPRK into a political, ideological and military power which the world people envy.

The exploits performed by him in the Korean revolution and global independence will be remembered forever by the Korean people and the world progressive people.

The brave Korean people will display to the full their resourcefulness and the might of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's nation in the effort for building a thriving socialist country, united close behind Kim Jong Un.