It means the Songun idea and politics are the revolutionary idea that can be called by relating to his august name only and the basic socialist political mode of Kim Jong Il style.

The world political history does not know the word Songun.

Kim Jong Il formulated and systemized President Kim Il Sung's idea of attaching importance to the army and the military affairs as the Songun revolutionary idea and developed it in depth.

He enforced a fresh and unique politics, the Songun politics, when the U.S. became all the more pronounced in its moves for suffocating the DPRK advancing along the road of socialism in the mid-1990s.

The Songun politics is the basic political mode under socialism which helps place military affairs before everything on the principle of attaching importance to arms and prioritizing military affairs, and advance the socialist cause victoriously with the Korean People's Army (KPA) as the core and main force.

On this basis, he established the new state machinery with the National Defence Commission as its pivot and solved all the issues in the revolution and construction on the principle of prioritizing military affairs.

Thanks to the Songun politics, the DPRK's single-minded unity and great army-people unity were successfully carried out to consolidate the political and ideological position of the revolution in every way.

The KPA made a series of successes in the showdown with the U.S. and the socialist economic construction as the standard-bearer and vanguard.

Indeed, Songun associated with his whole life is independence, dignity and the immortal banner for final victory in the building of a socialist power.