The statement said:

Comrade Kim Jong Il pursued the great Songun politics under the uplifted banner of the Juche idea and firmly defended the sovereignty of the Korean nation and world socialism.

His great revolutionary idea and cause are being successfully carried forward by Comrade Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

All the party members of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico pay the highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who built the DPRK into the powerful socialist state and made a great contribution to the victorious advance of the cause of world socialism on the occasion of the significant Day of the Shining Star.