He, in his press statement, paid the noblest tribute to leader

Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the greatest national memorial day of the DPRK.

The press statement said that the great leader Kim Jong Il conducted broad and deep ideo-theoretical activities with his energetic pursuit and study and made the forced march of tireless on-site guidance for the building of a thriving nation and the improvement of the people's standard of living.

It noted that he always found himself among the people throughout the period of his revolutionary leadership.

Saying that always going among the people, he shared his destiny with them and reflected their simple opinions in the policies, it pointed out that he always asked if the people liked it when something was created, and found worth of living in people's happiness.

The Korean people are holding him in high esteem as the eternal leader of the Workers' Party of Korea, it stressed.

The lines and policies set forth by the WPK in each period and at each stage of the revolution and construction were what he conceived and proposed by reflecting the people's demand and aspiration during his ceaseless field-guidance, it noted.

For him, the people were teachers and their desires and interests were the starting point for the WPK to formulate all the lines and policies, it said.

The footprints of Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the people are everywhere in the DPRK, it said.

It stressed that Kim Jong Il will continue to bless with his sunny smile the Korean people who are dynamically struggling for the dignity and glory of the great country and the victorious advance of socialism with confidence in victory and indomitable will.