Rodong Sinmun says that the revolutionary history of Kim Jong Il represents the course of heroic epic covered by the peerless statesman, iron-willed commander and peerless patriot who set an example of the era for building a powerful socialist country under the uplifted red flag of Juche.

It goes on:

Born as the son of the guerrillas in Mt Paektu, the holy mountain of the revolution, Kim Jong Il grew up to be a prominent revolutionary. He had steadily advanced the revolution and construction in keeping with the idea and intention of President Kim Il Sung, deeming it as his lifelong mission to carry forward to completion the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Under the uplifted banner of modeling the whole society on Kimilsungism, he developed our party, state and army into the party, the state and the army of the leader, ushered in a heyday of the era of the Workers' Party in all fields of politics and military, economy and culture and set a noble example in realizing the cause of immortalizing the leader with his revolutionary moral obligation unprecedented in the human history of politics.

It was the lifelong desire and iron will of Kim Jong Il to glorify the country as the great Paektusan nation to be envied by the world and as the socialist power where the ideal and dream of the people have come true.

The march to Mt Paektu to be made by the Korean people despite rain or snow is an orbit of Juche Kim Jong Il steadily followed and the road of winning the victory of socialism as it leads to successfully realizing his idea and cause.

All the party members and working people should make uninterrupted innovations and progress and stage successive offensive full of faith in the bright future of Juche Korea, keenly aware that self-reliance and self-development on all fronts for building a socialist power indicate a way out and their own strength is what they can count on.

Minju Joson calls upon all the people to get united as one in mind around respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and work hard to glorify the great Kim Jong Il's Korea before the world.