The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il is a peerless patriot who devoted his whole life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of people

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"The General was a peerless patriot; he loved his country and fellow people more ardently than anybody else did, and he devoted his whole life to achieving the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people. Thus he performed imperishable exploits that are etched in the history of the country."

Chairman Kim Jong Il, the peerless patriot, this shows the greatest thanks and praise of the Korean people to Chairman Kim Jong Il who performed the undying immortal exploits to shine forever on this land for the country and the people with the warmest love and devotion till the last moments of his life.

The world has had many patriots and famous persons who have devoted themselves to their country and people, and many patriotic anecdotes in praise of them are also being said.

However, history knows no such a great man and a patriot as the great General who continued the road of love and devotion for the country and people, overcoming all sorts of difficulties that he could experience as a leader and as a human being without even a moment's rest.

He ushered in a new era of patriotism for the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people with his warmest love and achieved undying exploits to shine forever with his boundless devotion. Herein lies the noble greatness of the great General as a peerlessly great man that no patriot can match in history.

The greatness of Chairman Kim Jong Il, a peerless patriot, as a peerlessly great man firstly lies in the fact that he is the incarnation of love for the country and people with the most ardent love for the country and the people.

Love for the country and people is the most important trait a patriot should possess and a criterion for distinguishing true patriotism.

The great General, who hardened his noble outlook on the country and people as his faith early in the trials of the anti-Japanese war and the grim Fatherland Liberation War, loved our country and people all his life with the ardor he had composed the immortal masterpiece "The Embrace of My Motherland" which he sang highly of as the embrace of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, with the love he had planted two pine-nut trees in the grim period when everything was burnt and ashes blew, and with the will he had recited "O Korea, I Will Add Glory to Thee" in reflection of his pledge to demonstrate Korea to the whole world on Ryongnam Hill.

Always cherished in the depth of his heart were his dear country and people.

When he saw a forest thickly wooded or vast field realigned in a sweeping manner, he would say to himself, "Green mountain" and "Green field," picturing in his mind the future of a thriving country and happiness our people would enjoy down through generations. When he was on visits to foreign countries, he would say with deep emotion, "My country, my nation," missing his country and people back in his country. He set up the ordinary people whom he could see and meet everywhere as "God" ardently worshipped, the most respected teacher and the most powerful and talented creator.

The great General, who ardently loved the country and people by devoting all his soul, put forward the ideology consistent with the warmest love for the country and people, and pursued the politics that embody the greatest love for the country and people, thus opening up a new history of noble love on the land of the country.

Thanks to the love for the country and people of the great General, who devoted his everything regarding his whole life as the one for the country and the people, our country could shine brilliantly as a socialist country of Juche and the Korean people could become the independent people enjoying the greatest happiness in the world to the full extent.

Indeed, the great General is the incarnation of love for his country and people with the warmest love for the country and the people than anyone else.

The greatness of Chairman Kim Jong Il, a peerless patriot, is secondly that he is the great hero of the nation who consolidated an eternal foundation for the prosperity of the country and happiness of people.

Hero is not any official post but the honorable title that the people acclaim with their hearts, and the absolute dignity that only the respected and trusted great man can achieve.

The great leader is the most heroic hero and peerless hero who performed great exploits which cannot be matched with all the patriotic feats of the heroes well known in the history.

By successfully realizing the single-hearted unity of the leader, the Party and the masses, he strengthened the politico-ideological might in every way with the single-hearted unity, the irresistible strength peculiar to Juche Korea, as its core.

Regarding the single-hearted unity as his political philosophy, he firmly established the monolithic ideological system, the monolithic leadership system of the leader, in the whole Party and society, inherited and developed the tradition of defending the leader with lives and the harmonious whole created in the flames of the anti-Japanese struggle, and wisely led all the people living on this land to deepen the ties of kinship with the leader through an all-embracing politics of love and trust.

Our fatherland could demonstrate its might as a politico-ideological power of single-hearted unity, thanks to the wise leadership of the great General who firmly consolidated the organizational and ideological unity and cohesion of the revolutionary ranks, holding fast to the leader-centered theory and the line of attaching foremost importance to ideology as its core.

He built the invincible military force capable of reliably defending the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people.

The military might of a country represents its national strength; only when it builds up its military might in every way can it defend the national dignity, the security and happiness of its people.

With his ardent love for the country and the people, he developed the People's Army, the backbone and core force of national defense, into an elite revolutionary force boundlessly loyal to the Party's ideology and cause, and ushered in a new era of development of the self-reliant defense industry with a do-or-die will, thus providing a powerful military guarantee for the lasting prosperity.

It is a precious fruition of Chairman Kim Jong Il, the hero of the nation and peerless patriot, that the miserable weak colonial nation, which had to regard submission and national ruin as fated because of the lack of strength to defend itself while boasting of its 5 000-year-long history and brilliant culture, could be raised to the status of a world military power that no one dares to provoke.

He unfolded a far-reaching plan for building an economic power and laid a solid springboard for developing the self-supporting economy.

An independent economy is a material guarantee for the advance and development of a socialist country. Economic self-sufficiency is the only way to live independently and provide the people with a happy life.

Looking far ahead into the future, the great General worked heart and soul to consolidate the foundation of the self-supporting economy.

Thanks to his tireless efforts, the Juche-based iron production system was established, Juche-based vinalon and Juche-based fertilizer were successfully applied, and the Juche character of key industries was steadily strengthened. In addition, many modern light industry production bases were built to contribute to improving the people's standard of living, the land of the country was changed as befitting the land of socialist Korea and the flames of the industrial revolution in the new century were kindled, thus providing a solid springboard for the self-supporting economy.

Indeed, the great General is the great hero of the nation who laid an eternal foundation for the prosperity of the country and happiness of people.

The greatness of Chairman Kim Jong Il, a peerless patriot, is thirdly that he is a great revolutionary and a great man who devoted his all to the country and the people till the last moments of his life with his ardent devotion.

Devotion to the country and the people is the factor and virtue that defines genuine patriots.

Saying that life is the one devoted to the country and the people and that only when the end of life as well as the beginning of life is beautiful, the life can be a genuine one, he lived not merely for today but for tomorrow and devoted his whole life.

Looking back upon the past, from the day he made a historic pledge on Ryongnam Hill till the last moments of his revolutionary life, the great General made ceaseless journeys for the country and the people without a moment's rest and devoted himself without hesitation.

On the road of patriotic devotion of the great General for the country and the people were a sharp-cut cliff on Mt. Osong, a sea road of rough storms to Cho Islet, a tearful snowstorm forced march he made freezing all over his body and a train forced march of more than 100 000 ri a year for the prosperity of the country.

He was also a man.

It is the common feelings of all people to think much of a warmer part of an ondol floor in the intense cold of midwinter, of a cool shade in the scorching heat, of a rest if they are hard, and receive treatment if they are sick.

However, he worked with all devotion to the prosperity of the country and the beautiful happiness of people till the last moments of his life, devoting even the enjoyable right with the faith of patriotic devotion that the country and nation would never forget even if we fought to the death, and that he would pursue his way cherishing the hope in his mind though no one knew his mind.

Overcoming unbearable mental and physical sufferings beyond human imagination by the warmest and the most ardent love for the country and people, the great General was on the super-intense forced march, taking not a moment's rest, until he breathed his last on a moving train. Such a leader has never been witnessed anywhere in the world.

Indeed, Chairman Kim Jong Il is a peerless patriot who devoted his whole life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people with his ardent love for and devotion to the country and people, thus performing undying feats that are etched in the history of the country.