Speakers said that he defended the socialist country of Juche with his original Songun politics and performed great feats for the times and revolution, the country and its people.

Under his leadership the People's Army has grown to be vanguard regarding it as its life and soul to devotedly protect the leader and thoroughly implement the order of the Supreme Commander in the van, the powerful Paektusan revolutionary army equipped with modern weaponry and the main force for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Songun, they noted.

Kim Jong Il made sure that Kim Il Sung Constitution which codifies President Kim Il Sung's Juche-based idea of nation-building and feats was adopted, established the Korean-style state leadership system with the National Defence Commission as a pivot, thus winning victories in the struggle to defend socialism and in the confrontation with imperialism and the U.S., they said.

They underlined the need to make a positive contribution to hastening the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, regarding the behests of Kim Jong Il as the lifeline.