In the statement he said that President Kim Il Sung founded the Juche idea, the original man-centered idea, for the first time in the human history of thought and thus performed the shining feat in carving out the destiny of mankind.

The Juche idea helped usher in the era of independence, a new era in which the working masses, who had been subject to domination and oppression in the past, emerge the masters of the world and their own destinies and the powerful being of carving out the independent destiny on the stage of history, he said.

The President is the peerlessly elder statesman who made immortal contributions to global independence with his unusual leadership, he said, adding that the human cause of independence could advance along its orbit as he led the movement for global independence.