The statement said that the President was the invincible and iron-willed commander as he founded the immortal Juche idea most brilliant in the history of human thinking after embarking upon the road of revolution in his early years and led to victory the Fatherland Liberation War against the U.S. imperialists.

He was the father of the nation-building and benevolent leader of the people as he built the socialist system centered on the popular masses and a peerlessly great man as he devoted his whole life to the struggle for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, strengthening and developing the socialist movement and victoriously advancing the human cause of independence, the statement noted.

The statement stressed that General Secretary Kim Jong Il set a shining example in accomplishing the cause of perpetuating the memory of the President and has carried forward generation after generation the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by the President with his outstanding Songun political mode.

The statement expressed belief that the Korean people would courageously frustrate all the moves of the hostile forces including the United States against the DPRK and achieve greater victory in the honorable struggle to achieve national reunification and build a great prosperous powerful nation, the behests of the President.