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Rodong Sinmun on Songun Revolutionary Leadership

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

   Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il is a peerlessly great man who provided a sure political and military guarantee for the prosperity of the DPRK under the banner of Songun, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    He has always directed biggest efforts to augmenting the political and military potentials of the DPRK for several decades of his Songun revolutionary leadership.
    The political maxim he has consistently adhered to is the Juche-based theory of ideology, his revolutionary philosophy has been the single-minded unity and he has regarded the military affairs as the greatest state affairs. It is thanks to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il who has skillfully combined politics with the military affairs by retaining his grip on the party and the army that the revolutionary ranks of the DPRK have grown stronger to be ideologically pure ones, an organized integral whole and a unified entity for action and its defence capability has been boosted to be matchless power.
    The wise leadership of Kim Jong Il who has augmented the political and military potentials of the DPRK in every way under the banner of Songun lies in that he has channeled primary efforts into imbuing the party, the army and the revolutionary ranks with the monolithic idea with main emphasis on ideology.
    His wise leadership also finds its manifestation in the fact that he has advanced the revolution and construction with the People's Army as the mainstay and main force of the country and increased the defence capability of the country its own way by firmly adhering to the principle of self-defence.
    The DPRK is advancing on the basis of the indestructible single-minded unity and matchless military capability which has grown incomparably stronger in the historically long-drawn struggle. Herein lie the source of optimism of the Korean people about a bright future of a great prosperous powerful nation and a rosy prospect of the DPRK.
    The powerful political and military potentials built in the course of the Songun revolution provide a sure guarantee for giving full play to the dignity of the sovereign DPRK and serve as a fundamental cornerstone for demonstrating its might as an indestructible fortress of socialism and as its engine for making steady leaping advances along the road of prosperity.
    The DPRK advancing under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il will in the future, too, grow strong and prosper forever, always displaying its might as an indestructible political and ideological power and military power.