Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- Leading newspapers of the DPRK Sunday dedicate editorials to the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The papers say that all the people and officers and service personnel across the DPRK pay the highest tribute and extended their best wishes for immortality to Kim Jong Il who led the DPRK to victory with his ardent love and devotion to the country and its people.

The sacred revolutionary history of the Chairman who devoted himself to the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of the people, undergoing all sorts of hardships that he could experience as the leader, revolutionary and human being, is the most vivid expression of his love for the country and the people, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:

With total dedication, he provided a solid foundation for building a powerful country and an unlimited potentiality of development that can never be bartered for anything. Herein lies his immortal exploits for the country and its people.

Eternally invincible is the DPRK that is winning victory after victory with the great patriotic exploits Kim Jong Il performed for the prosperity of the rising generation as a cornerstone.

The sacred history of Kim Jong Il's love for the country and the people is being successfully carried forward by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The future of the powerful country of Juche is rosy as it is led by Kim Jong Un, the prominent leader of the revolution who is ushering in a great new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation with his noble sense of responsibility and mission for the destiny of the country and the people.

Minju Joson notes that Kim Jong Il is the image of socialist Korea and the benevolent father of the people as he had led the DPRK to victory with his high sense of responsibility for the Workers' Party of Korea and the revolution and his warm love for the country and the people and performed great exploits which will be immortal in the history of the country. -0-