Noting that President Kim Il Sung liberated Korea after putting an end to the occupation by the Japanese imperialists and founded the DPRK on September 9, 1948, the statement said:

He solved all the problems arising in the state building independently and devoted all his life to the building of a powerful socialist country.

Thanks to the leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il, the DPRK could advance invariably along the road of socialism even in the grim period when socialism was frustrated in several countries one after another.

The immortal feats of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, who founded and developed the people-centered socialist country where the people are the master of everything and everything serves them, will remain long in history.