He said:

Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK, was an iron-willed brilliant commander who defended socialism.

He frustrated the enemies' attempts for invasion and firmly defended the country's sovereignty by developing the Korean People's Army into the invincible strong army at the end of the last century when the imperialists intensified the anti-socialist offensive against the DPRK with the collapse of socialism in various countries as a momentum.

He formulated Songun politics as the basic political mode under socialism and thoroughly applied it to all spheres of social life and put the national power of the DPRK on the highest level.

Socialist Korea was consolidated, demonstrating its invincibility in the world as it was led by Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il unrolled the grandiose plan of building a thriving nation in the days of defending socialism and provided a springboard for it.

The DPRK is working miracles and innovations in all domains under the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the WPK and first chairman of the NDC of the DPRK.

We wish the Korean people bigger successes in their struggle for defending socialism.