Adnan Ismail, deputy general secretary of the Socialist Unionist Party of Syria, said this in an inaugural ceremony of the preparatory committee of the party for celebrating the birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il held on January 26.

He said that Kim Jong Il will always be alive as supreme leader Kim Jong Un is leading the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people to victory, holding aloft the banner of great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.