The statement said:

Comrade Kim Jong Il was born as son of guerrillas, grew up in the severe anti-Japanese war and amid the dark clouds of the Fatherland Liberation War during which he cultivated firm faith and pluck to struggle against the imperialists to the end and the ardent patriotic spirit valuing even a blade of grass of the country.

He wisely led the socialist construction holding high the banner of the Juche idea.

He further developed in depth the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung by publishing "On the Juche Idea" and other famous works.

He contained the U.S. and its followers which resorted to the frantic moves to isolate the DPRK and turned it into a military power with nuclear deterrent.

The Korean people have victoriously advanced along the road of independence, Songun and socialism which Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il hewed out, under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

There will always be victory and glory only in the way ahead of the Korean people advancing under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism true to the behests of Kim Jong Il.