The past three years are shining as the proud course in which an epochal turn was made in accomplishing the Juche-based cause of building an army, Rodong Sinmun notes, and goes on:

All the hostile forces including the U.S. slapped unprecedented sanctions and ratcheted up pressure on the DPRK which suffered so suddenly the greatest loss of the father of the nation whom Koreans followed as Heaven and the leader of the revolution.

The party and revolutionary ranks get more firmly united in the stern test which would have collapsed others more than hundred times, and a fresh heyday was ushered in developing the revolutionary armed forces, powerful weapon for hewing out the independent destiny of the country and nation. This is the brilliant fruition of the outstanding and tested leadership of Kim Jong Un.

His energetic Songun leadership serves as a decisive factor in consolidating the characteristics of the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army as the army of the leader and party and putting its combat capabilities on the highest level.

His guidance over the overall socialist construction with the People's Army as a mainstay and icon opened a new era of prosperity of Songun Korea on this land.

The shining achievements made in the advance in the new century of Juche clearly prove the greatness of Kim Jong Un who is leading the Songun revolutionary cause to victory.

Minju Joson also says that the DPRK achieved a shining victory in confrontation with the U.S. to be specially recorded in national history and strikingly demonstrated its dignity and might as the great Paektusan nation as it held him as supreme commander.

The past three years' drive convinced the service personnel and people of the rosy future of powerful Korea advancing under his leadership, the paper notes.