December 27 is the Constitution Day of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

On this occasion, our people are touched by the boundless gratitude to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il who enacted the most popular and Juche-oriented constitution and deep thanks to the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who glorified our Constitution as the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Constitution.

The President created the Juche-oriented legislative tradition in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and saw to it that the people’s democratic constitution, the first of its kind in our country, was enacted and enforced, which comprehended the will of the people in the liberated country.

He, who built the socialist system centered on the popular masses on this land by victoriously leading the social revolution of two stages, decided to enact the constitution which was completely developed in our own way in its composition and content and energetically led the work for its realization.

Thanks to his meticulous guidance, the Constitution of the DPRK was adopted at the First Session of the Fifth Supreme People’s Assembly on December 27, 1972.

With the enactment of the Constitution embodying the Juche Idea, a legal guarantee was provided for firmly defending our people-centered state and social system and our people could have a powerful legal weapon to accelerate the revolution and construction more vigorously.

Chairman Kim Jong Il paid deep attention to further perfecting the Constitution as required by the times and the developing revolution.

Thanks to the energetic leadership of the Chairman who clarified an immortal great programme for the realization of the cause of immortalizing the leader and has consistently maintained it, the Kim Il Sung Constitution which legalized holding the President in high esteem as the eternal President of the DPRK was unanimously adopted at the First Session of the Tenth Supreme People’s Assembly.

The ideas and exploits of the President and the Chairman on building the Juche-oriented law are shining more brilliantly thanks to the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

In reflection of the unanimous will and desire of the people across the country, the General Secretary ensured that the Constitution stipulated that the President is the eternal President of the DPRK and the Chairman is the eternal chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK at the 5th Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly and that the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where the President and the Chairman lie in state is a grand monument to the immortality of the leader and the dignity, symbol and eternal holy place of the entire Korean nation at the 7th Session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly.

Thanks to his noble loyalty and wise leadership, the Constitution of our country was further developed and perfected into the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Constitution, making it possible for our people to hold the President and the Chairman in high esteem as the eternal leaders of our revolution for all ages and more brilliantly accomplish the cause of building a prosperous country of the peerlessly great men under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Indeed, to have the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Constitution shining with the political charter of Juche is a privilege that can be bestowed on our people who have led a blessed life under the care of the peerlessly great men generation after generation.

The immortal exploits of the General Secretary, the supreme incarnation of noble moral obligation, will shine forever along with the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Constitution and the DPRK will demonstrate its dignity to the world as a socialist power where the desire of the peerlessly great men is translated into reality.

Rodong Sinmun