The statement said:

From the outset of his office at the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Il made sure that the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung was thoroughly applied to the party building and activities, taking hold on it as the guiding idea of the party.

It was thanks to Kim Jong Il that the WPK has become the party strong in independence, unshaken in the face of all ordeals of history as well as a powerful party which is dynamically advancing the socialist cause.

Kim Jong Il is the eternal general secretary of the WPK.

We are firmly convinced that thanks to the dear respected Kim Jong Un who is successfully carrying forward Kim Jong Il's cause, the WPK will shed its brighter rays as an invincible over the world in the future, too.