It said:

Kim Jong Il was a great leader who performed gigantic exploits for protecting the sovereignty of the country, achieving the cause of reunification, building socialism in the DPRK and providing happiness to its people.

Since he started his work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1964, he dedicated his all to developing the WPK into an invincible steel-strong party.

In the period of the Arduous March and the forced march when the Korean people faced unprecedented trials and difficulties due to the imperialists' desperate moves to stifle the DPRK and the continued natural disasters following the demise of President Kim Il Sung, he performed historical exploits by holding higher the banner of Songun, thereby protecting the sovereignty and dignity of the country and socialism, ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and providing the conditions and foundation for building an economic power.

He also performed undying exploits for accomplishing the cause of independent and peaceful reunification of Korea by making sure that the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was adopted.

Thanks to his great devotion and exploits for the country and its people, the Korean people are dynamically stepping up the building of a thriving nation under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.