Leader Kim Jong Il energetically continued the journey of his field guidance to glorify the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung, a grand auspicious event in the history of the nation, with shining victory in the advance for great surge, the article said.

In the last days of his life he toured the Hana Music Information Center and the Kwangbok Area Supermarket and took a step to supply tasty fishes to the citizens, it said, and went on:

He made endless journey of field guidance, overcoming mental and physical strain and illness with his superhuman energy to translate the people's ideals into reality, before his heart stopped beating on a running train ahead of the eminence of prosperity of socialist Korea so ardently desired by him.

The army and people of the DPRK, who suffered grief at the greatest national loss, have keenly felt how prominent the person, whom they had upheld as their leader in covering the road of victory and glory, was and how sacrificial the journey of field guidance made by him to lay eternal foundations for national prosperity was.