The statement said:

Kim Jong Il was a great leader who left a priceless legacy for guaranteeing the eternal foundation of socialist Korea and its rosy future.

He was an outstanding thinker and theoretician who formulated the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung as an integral system of the idea, theory and method of Juche and glorified it as a great guiding idea in the era of independence.

He was also an invincible iron-willed commander who turned the DPRK into an impregnable fortress of socialism any imperialists dare not provoke and strengthened the Korean People's Army into a strong army.

Marshal Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Korean people, is wisely leading the Korean people's struggle for a final victory under the uplifted banner of Songun by successfully carrying forward the revolutionary cause of the preceding leaders.

The Korean people single-mindedly united around Kim Jong Un will always emerge victorious, decisively shattering all the moves of the U.S. and forces kowtowing to it.