Today our army men and people are significantly greeting the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (Day of the Shining Star) in the humblest reverence.February 16 is the most auspicious day for the Korean people. It is thanks to this day that our people have come to be blessed with the illustrious leaders generation after generation and the Juche revolutionary cause, Songun revolutionary cause, has been successfully carried forward by the blood line of Mt.Paektu.Kim Jong Il is the eternal image of the powerful Paektusan nation.
"Let us realize the ideology and cause of the great Comrade Kim Jong Il to the end, firmly united around the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un!", this is the pledge of faith made by our army men and people greeting the Day of the Shining Star. Kim Jong Il is the peerlessly outstanding leader and illustrious patriot who created a model of succession to the revolutionary cause and construction of a powerful socialist nation with his brilliant ideological and theoretical intelligence, indomitable faith and tireless enthusiastic leadership.