The statement said;

Kim Jong Il, tender-hearted father of the Korean people, was the outstanding thinker and theoretician, great leader of the party, state and army and iron-willed brilliant commander possessed of the gifted stratagem and matchless grit.

He performed the undying feats to go down in the history of the country by loyally carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche started by President Kim Il Sung.

He formulated the three charters for national reunification and provided the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and the October 4 declaration, thus ushering in the historic June 15 era of reunification in which the Koreans advanced in the patriotic idea of By the Korean Nation Itself.

The DPRK is demonstrating its might and dignity as a satellite manufacturer and launcher and a nuclear weapons state and emerged an invulnerable socialist fortress thanks to the Songun politics enforced by Kim Jong Il.