Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) -- Today the Korean people are dynamically advancing the cause of building a powerful socialist country based on the revolutionary exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Regarding the building of a powerful socialist country of Juche as his lifetime desire, Kim Jong Il indicated the road of building a powerful country with his outstanding ideo-theoretical activities and laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of the country while making a ceaseless forced march for field guidance.

He clarified the theoretical and practical issues arising in building a powerful country with his energetic thinking and extraordinary inquiry.

As he formulated the Juche idea, the revolutionary idea of President Kim Il Sung, as Kimilsungism, the DPRK could put forward the advantageous revolutionary idea suited to its actual conditions as the state political idea and, on its basis, renovate all fields of state and social life.

His unique ideas and theories, including the Juche-oriented theory of ideology and the idea of living in our own way, served as the banner of sure victory in the revolution and construction.

The line of attaching importance to ideology, arms and science and technology, the strategy of self-reliance in the new century and other ideas and theories clarified by Kim Jong Il were powerful weapons that made it possible to successfully pave the road of building a Korean-style rich country with strong army in all fields of state activities.

Thanks to his energetic ideo-theoretical activities and leadership, the destiny of the country and people was firmly defended and a foundation for the happiness of posterity was laid in the acute and complicated vortex of the 20th century.

The idea of building a powerful socialist country, advanced by Kim Jong Il looking forward to the rosy future of Juche Korea with confidence, and his revolutionary exploits are shining along with the new era of the comprehensive national development. -0-