June 19, 1964 is a historic day he started the work at the WPK Central Committee, the paper noted, saying:

His start of work is a special event in developing the WPK.

He strengthened the WPK into the party of the leader and a powerful guiding force of the Songun revolution and always led it along the road of victory and thus laid the eternal foundations for building a socialist power.

He directed priority efforts to increasing the military strength to defend the destiny of socialism and the nation under the uplifted banner of Songun at a time when the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces' anti-socialist offensive was focused on the DPRK.

The DPRK, eclipsed in the world stage as a colonial weak nation a century ago, is now displaying its might as a politico-ideological and military power, a satellite manufacturing and launching state and a full-fledged nuclear weapons state. This would have been unthinkable without the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.