The statement said:

Leader Kim Jong Il assisted President Kim Il Sung faithfully and wisely led the whole work of the party, state and army.

Through his energetic ideological and theoretical activities, he developed in depth the Juche idea created by the President into the guiding idea in the era of independence and performed undying feats in the building of Korean-style socialism based on it.

Thanks to the Songun politics enforced by him, the DPRK demonstrated its dignity as the fortress of the world socialism.

Socialism collapsed in some countries and sovereign countries fell victim to the imperialist allied forces, but the DPRK grew stronger.

The U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces are hell-bent on the aggression and interference in weak nations, but they have not dared to provoke the DPRK.

All the achievements made in the DPRK are a brilliant fruition of Kim Jong Il's noble patriotism.