The past five years were an unforgettable period during which all the people keenly realized what precious feats leader Kim Jong Il performed for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche, Rodong Sinmun says, adding:

Regarding it as his lifelong mission to accomplish the revolutionary cause started in Mt. Paektu, Kim Jong Il saved the destiny of the revolution, the country and its people from the life-and-death crisis and brought about epoch-making miracles and changes in all fields of socialist construction with his original Songun revolutionary leadership.

His revolutionary life as the peerlessly Songun brilliant commander was the noblest patriotic life as he provided foundations for the eternal prosperity of the great Paektusan nation by hewing the unimaginably rugged snow-covered road with his noble view on life and future that one should live not merely for today but for tomorrow and successfully carrying out the most important and difficult historic tasks in the building of a powerful socialist country.

He had made high-intensity forced march of field guidance day and night with his superhuman will and efforts to bring a bright future of the country and the nation while going in simple jumper till the last moments of his life.

His self-sacrificing patriotic dedication and revolutionary history make the hearts of all his soldiers and disciples burn with patriotic enthusiasm and revolutionary zeal.

Minju Joson says that his revolutionary career was that of an outstanding thinker and theoretician who brightly showed the road ahead of the times and the revolution and it was the life of a prominent statesman, great Songun brilliant commander and tender-hearted father of the people who performed undying feats to remain forever in the history of the country and the human history of politics.

History has recorded a large number of great persons for their contributions to their countries and nations but knows no such peerlessly great man as Kim Jong Il who is always alive in the hearts of the people, the paper notes, adding:

Kim Jong Il is the eternal image of the great Paektusan nation and his revolutionary history continues along with dynamism of the thriving country.