The statement said:

HE Kim Jong Il who dedicated himself to improving the people's living standard while regarding it as his lifetime motto to believe in people as in Heaven made journeys to mix with people till the last moments of his life.

History records a lot of leaders who claimed worked for people but it does not know such great man as HE Kim Jong Il who passed away on his way for field guidance for the people's happiness.

The past three years were a period featured by the Korean people's boundless yearning for HE Kim Jong Il and their invariable loyalty and noble sense of moral obligation towards him.

The Korean people have brought about great changes by pushing forward their dynamic advance for carrying out his behests.

HE Kim Jong Un saw to it that the DPRK held HE Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

Though HE Kim Jong Il passed away, the great exploits he performed on behalf of the Korean people and progressive humankind will last forever.

He will always be with us.