Reporters and speakers said at the meetings that Kim Jong Il's start of work at the C.C., the WPK was a historic event that provided a firm guarantee for the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche and opened up a bright future for the Party, the revolution, the country and the nation.

They referred to the fact that Kim Jong Il developed the WPK to be the Party of President
Kim Il Sung both in name and reality and has brilliantly led the whole Party, the service persons and all other people to the struggle for carrying out the Songun revolutionary line.

Thanks to the extraordinary ideological and theoretical wisdom and the tireless Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il the national power of Juche Korea was powerfully demonstrated to the whole world and a spectacular era brought about on this land where all the ideals of the people come true, they said.

They called upon all the people to make hot waves of great innovations and great leap forward sweep all their worksites and thus gain shining labor achievements true to the joint New Year editorial and the joint calls of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the WPK.