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Rodong Sinmun on Great Leadership of Kim Jong Il

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- It is thanks to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, who has opened up a turning phase of developing revolution with the might of idea, that the Korean army and people have firmly defended Korean-style socialism and opened up a new brilliant era of national prosperity at a time when the moves of the U.S. imperialists and other reactionaries against the DPRK became all the more vicious in political, military, economic, ideological, cultural and all other fields and the Korean revolution was facing a harsh trial. Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    Kim Jong Il's famous work "Giving Priority to Ideological Work is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism", published on June 19, Juche 84 (1995), reflects his firm faith and will to defend and accomplish the socialist cause of Juche with the might of arms and idea.
    His wise leadership which opened up a new era of national prosperity with the might of idea finds its expression in the fact that he developed the socialist idea as required by the times and the developing revolution and brought about a radical turn in the ideological work so as to arouse the army and people to the drive for defending the country and building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Thanks to his distinguished wisdom and energetic ideological and theoretical activities socialism has been placed on a scientific foundation and the Songun idea shines as the guidelines of the present times. A lot of his famous works including "Socialism Is a Science", "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction" and "The Line of Songun Revolution Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Times and an Ever-victorious Banner of Our Revolution" were the driving force which helped our army and people to build a great prosperous powerful nation under the Songun leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, keenly realizing the validity of the socialist cause and the conviction of its sure victory, and lift-giving water which gave a fresh vitality to the socialist movement of the world.
    A rosy future is in store for our socialist country as it is led by Kim Jong Il, a peerless thinker and theoretician who illumines the road ahead of the times.