In an article titled "Comrade Kim Jong Il, great guardian of independence, Songun and socialism" the chairman said Kim Jong Il resolutely frustrated the imperialists' ever-more desperate moves against the DPRK at the end of the last century with a treasured sword of Songun.

It was thanks to the outstanding Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il that the DPRK could shed its rays as a dignified socialist military power of Juche in the East, he said, and went on:

Kim Jong Il published a lot of famous works to protect socialism from the ideological offensive of the imperialists and renegades.

Independence, Songun and socialist line consistently maintained by Kim Jong Il are great legacies bequeathed by him.

The image of Kim Jong Il is shining brightly and he is always alive in the hearts of the Korean people and other progressive people of the world desirous of independence and socialism.