The article highly praised Kim Jong Il, eternal general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and eternal chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, as a great master of independent politics.

His political philosophy is the Juche idea which the international community recognizes as the guiding idea of the cause of independence, the article said, and went on:

Leader Kim Jong Il thoroughly applied in the revolution and construction the Juche idea which has it that man is the master of his own destiny and has the might to pave his own destiny.

Songun politics is the most important one of his exploits.

Thanks to his Songun politics the north remarkably increased its military capabilities and demonstrated its might as a military power no formidable enemy dares provoke.

The sovereignty and socialism in the north have been reliably defended despite the general offensive by the imperialist allied forces.

Kim Jong Il paid deep attention to building a new independent world, consistently maintaining independence, peace and friendship as the basic ideas of external activities.

He conducted positive external activities to strengthen the world independent forces against imperialism.

The might and vitality of his independent politics found their vivid manifestations in the fact that the north and the south ushered in the June 15 era of reunification in the idea of By Our Nation Itself.

Kim Jong Il who led the Korean revolution and the global cause of independence to victory only will always remain in the world history of politics as a great master of independent politics.