The world progressives together with the Korean people are significantly greeting the birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il, the eternal general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, he said, and went on:

Kim Jong Il was the elder statesman and master of military affairs revered and recognized by the world.

Under his wise guidance the service personnel and people of the DPRK are getting single-mindedly united and it has turned into an invincible socialist fortress with tremendous military muscle and solid foundation of the self-supporting national economy.

Korea today would be unthinkable apart from his energetic guidance.

The undying feats he performed for the global independence and prosperity of the DPRK will be conveyed generation after generation.

He will always be alive in the hearts of mankind.