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"Short Biography of Comrade Kim Jong Il" (Enlarged Edition) Off Press

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

   Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- A book "Short Biography of Comrade Kim Jong Il" (an enlarged edition) compiled by the History Institute of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was published by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House.
    The book which has 96 sections of 8 chapters comprehensively and systematically deals with the brilliant revolutionary activities and undying feats of General Secretary Kim Jong Il in the period from February Juche 31 (1942) to December Juche 95 (2006).
    The first chapter of the book tells about the facts that Kim Jong Il acquired the qualities and traits as a leader to carry forward the Songun revolutionary cause of President Kim Il Sung generation after generation since his early years, witnessing the liberation of the country, the building of the new country, the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War, the postwar rehabilitation and construction and the building of the foundations of socialism after being born as the son of Mt. Paektu amidst the gunfire of the great anti-Japanese war on February 16, Juche 31 (1942).
    Its second chapter deals with the revolutionary activities conducted by Kim Jong Il in the period from August Juche 49 (1960) to March Juche 53 (1964) during which he started Songun revolutionary leadership by providing field guidance to Guard Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Tank Division of the Korean People's Army. He also grasped the revolutionary ideas and theories and leadership methods of the President, formulated a lot of ideas and theories including the scientific and original theory on the leader and thus developed in depth the immortal Juche idea, the Songun idea while conducting revolutionary activities at Kim Il Sung University in this period.
    Its third chapter tells about the facts that Kim Jong Il formulated it as a principal line of the Party work and activities to establish the ideological system of the President, saw to it that the party work was conducted in a unique manner as required by the developing reality, turned the DPRK into a socialist industrial state and ushered in the new era of opera arts, conducting revolutionary activities in the Central Committee of the WPK from April Juche 53 (1964) to February Juche 63 (1974).
    Its fourth chapter tells about the facts that he was acclaimed as a leader of the Workers' Party and people of Korea and formulated the revolutionary idea of the President as an integral system of the idea, theory and method of Juche and proclaimed the modeling of the whole society on the Juche idea as the supreme programme of the WPK, etc. in the period from February Juche 63 (1974) to October Juche 69 (1980).
    Its fifth chapter deals with the facts that he made the Sixth Congress of the party the glorious one which would shine most brilliantly in the history of the party, helped the revolutionary feats of the President go down to posterity by erecting the Tower of the Juche Idea and the Arch of Triumph and lit a torch of the "80s' speed" movement in the period from October Juche 69 (1980) to December Juche 78 (1989).
    Its sixth chapter tells about the facts that he assumed the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army, and was elected chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, etc. in the period between January Juche 79 (1990) and July Juche 83 (1994).
    Its seventh chapter deals with the facts that he provided the army and people of the DPRK with slogans of faith "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung will always be with us" and "Let us arm ourselves more firmly with the revolutionary ideas of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung!", wisely led the work to spruce up the Kumsusan Memorial Palace as the supreme sacred temple of Juche and push ahead with the revolution and construction true to the intentions of the President and thus creditably realized the cause of perpetuating the memory of the President and provided the springboard for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation in the period from July Juche 83 (1994) to December Juche 87 (1998).
    Its eighth chapter deals with the facts that he unrolled a far-reaching plan for building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, led the general march of Songun revolution to victory, provided the historic Pyongyang meeting to bring about a new heyday in the drive for national reunification and demonstrated the prestige and dignity of the DPRK all over the world through his energetic external activities and thus put fresh vitality into the cause of global independence, etc. in the period from January Juche 88 (1999) to December Juche 95 (2006).