Rodong Sinmun says it is a great pride and fortune for the service personnel and people of the DPRK to have made revolution, having Kim Jong Il, a prominent elder statesman recognized by the world and a peerless patriot, at the top posts of the party and the state.

His revolutionary career was a sacred course in which he made sure that the WPK and the country demonstrated their might as an invincible fortress steering the era of independence and an undying history in which he glorified the WPK as a strong political staff of the revolution and the country as the one of miracles, it notes, adding:

His revolutionary career is also characterized by the exploits he performed for developing the WPK and the country into the genuine ones for people by pursuing the politics of giving priority to them and with his love for them.

He was a peerlessly great man who set an epoch-making example in building the party and the state with his gifted ideological and theoretical wisdom and superb leadership ability for more than half a century and thus provided an eternal foundation for the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche and the revolutionary cause of Songun and lasting prosperity of the Korean people.

Noting that Marshal Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader of the WPK and the country who represents the destiny and future of the Korean people, the paper calls on all service personnel and people to strive hard to add shine to the glorious party of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and great Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea, united close around Kim Jong Un.

Minju Joson calls for invariably and dynamically advancing along the road of Juche under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, cherishing deep in mind the great national pride of holding Kim Jong Il praised by the world as the eternal leader of the WPK and revolution in high esteem.