Rodong Sinmun says since the WPK was led by Kim Jong Il, its militant power and leadership ability remarkably increased and a great heyday was ushered in all fields of socialist construction in the era of the WPK.

With his extraordinary ideo-theoretical wisdom and energetic leadership, Kim Jong Il carried forward and developed President Kim Il Sung's idea of the Juche-oriented party building and his exploits in all spheres, ushering in a great heyday in the development of the WPK and dynamically advancing the socialist cause and paving a broad avenue to the building of a thriving nation, the editorial notes, and goes on:

He regarded it as an overriding principle of the party activities to take deep care of the destiny of the popular masses in a responsible manner and made every possible effort to provide them with a worthy and happy life.

He performed exploits in building the party into a guardian of people's fate. What occupies a distinguished place in them is that he developed the WPK into a force guiding the Songun revolution.

He formulated the building of leadership art as an independent sphere of party-building for the first time in the history of building a socialist ruling party and wisely steered the work for putting it into practice.

It was one of his great party-building exploits that he developed the party into a promising party in which succession to the leadership is fully ensured.

Minju Joson stresses that his immortal revolutionary exploits will last forever along with the eternal prosperity of the DPRK.