Rodong Sinmun Friday dedicates an editorial to this anniversary, which says:

Since Kim Jong Il started his work at the WPK Central Committee, our Party has demonstrated its might as a revolutionary Party with a firm ideological and leadership system of the leader, a motherly Party serving the popular masses after forming a harmonious whole with them, and an invincible Party with steel-strong discipline and capabilities.

Since this day our Party has created a model in building a revolutionary party in the era of independence, invariably holding aloft the red flag of socialism century after century.

In the 1960s our country waged a fierce campaign for consolidating the triumphant socialist system and safeguarding the revolutionary gains against the invasion by imperialists. As Kim Jong Il started his work at the Party Central Committee at that time, our Party could fulfill its leadership mission and steer the revolution and the construction along the way of victory and glory.

The noble feats and traditions provided by Kim Jong Il while leading the WPK for decades guarantee our Party's victorious advance in the face of the stern trials of history in the new century of Juche.

The editorial calls upon all the people to add eternal glory to Kim Jong Il's immortal idea on Party building and carry forward the strenuous struggle for strengthening and developing our Party and for the victory of the cause of building a powerful socialist country.