Newspapers on Kim Jong Il's Career and Feats

Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Newspapers here today editorially laud the revolutionary career and feats of leader Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of his demise. The past five years were an unforgettable period during which all the people keenly realized what precious feats leader Kim Jong Il performed for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche, Rodong Sinmun says, adding: Regarding it as his lifelong mission to accomplish the revolutionary cause started in Mt. Paektu, Kim Jong Il saved the destiny of the revolution, the country and its people from the life-and-death crisis and brought about epoch-making miracles and changes in all fields of socialist construction with his original Songun revolutionary leadership. His self-sacrificing patriotic dedication and revolutionary history make the hearts of all his soldiers and disciples burn with patriotic enthusiasm and revolutionary zeal. Minju Joson says that his revolutionary career was that of an outstanding thinker and theoretician who brightly showed the road ahead of the times and the revolution and it was the life of a prominent statesman, great Songun brilliant commander and tender-hearted father of the people who performed undying feats to remain forever in the history of the country and the human history of politics. History has recorded a large number of great persons for their contributions to their countries and nations but knows no such peerlessly great man as Kim Jong Il who is always alive in the hearts of the people, the paper notes. -0-