General Secretary of the WPK Kim Jong Il's start of work at the WPK Central Committee was a historic event which provided a new epochal landmark for strengthening the party and accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche, the editorial of Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:

He was a peerlessly veteran statesman who led the WPK and the Korean revolution to victory for decades with his extraordinary ideological and theoretical wisdom, distinguished leadership ability and noble popular traits.

It was thanks to his wise leadership that the WPK has strengthened into the revolutionary party in which the ideological system and leadership system of the leader have been firmly established, and the mother party that serves the people after forming a harmonious whole with them. A model of the times was set to carry forward the idea and cause of the leader under the banner of modeling the whole society on the Juche idea, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have demonstrated their might as the invincible army and a great heyday for prosperity ushered in on this land. This is because the Korean people are holding him in high esteem at the head of the party and revolution.

The WPK is demonstrating its might as the party of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, holding them in high esteem as the eternal leaders.

It has strengthened into the mother party serving the people, firmly cementing the harmonious whole of the leader, the party and the masses provided by Kim Jong Il.

It is demonstrating its might as the militant party ushering in a new heyday of building a thriving nation by applying Kim Jong Il's patriotism.

The WPK's cause of building a thriving nation is sure to triumph as there are experienced and seasoned leadership of the dear respected Kim Jong Un and the army and people firmly united around the party in a monolithic idea and will.

Minju Joson calls for achieving the eternal prosperity of the country under the leadership of the party by holding Kim Jong Il in high esteem for all ages.