Kim Jong Il was elected chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission on April 9, Juche 82 (1993), says the editorial, and goes on:

As there was the historic day, the DPRK could emerge as an invincible politico-ideological power and military power of world standard and the Korean people could actively overcome unprecedented difficulties and add eternal luster to the immortal patriotic exploits of President Kim Il Sung.

Kim Jong Il was a peerless Songun brilliant commander and patriot who laid an eternal foundation for defending the country and building a powerful country with his extraordinary wisdom, distinguished political caliber and wise leadership and a peerless politician who made the DPRK demonstrate its dignity as an independent fortress with a high international prestige and influence.

He is a tender-hearted father who made the DPRK shed its brilliant rays as a dignified country of the people and a peerless patriot who developed the DPRK into a promising country with a powerful independent national economy and defence capability for self-defence.

Today the eye-opening successes in the building of a powerful socialist country would have been unthinkable without the powerful military and economic foundation laid by Kim Jong Il.

The matchless military muscle and inexhaustible potentials of the self-supporting economy reliably guarantee the durable security and rapid and sustained development of the DPRK.