The editorial says President Kim Il Sung's idea and cause of building a powerful country was successfully carried forward and a grand era when the DPRK was dashing forward to be a socialist powerful nation opened on this land thanks to April 9 when Kim Jong Il assumed the heavy responsibility as the chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK by the unanimous will and aspiration of the army and people.

It notes that Kim Jong Il was the peerless patriot and elder statesman who laid the strong foundation for the prosperity of the country and its people.

It points out that he put the dignity of the DPRK on the highest level by the steadfast independent politics and turned the DPRK into the matchless military power with his unique Songun politics. This is the exploit that will shine forever in the history of the country, it adds.

It was the exploit noteworthy in the history of the nation that he made the DPRK a great family of socialism with his noble politics of love for the people, it says.

It is the greatest exploit he performed for the everlasting prosperity of the DPRK that he successfully settled the issue of succession to the leadership, it notes, adding:

He did everything possible for the country and its people, making his way through virgin snow of the history as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK. His exploits will shine for all ages.