North Korea is stepping up its idolization campaign, praising State Affairs Commission Chairperson Kim Jong-un, who was re-endorsed as general secretary at the 9th Party Congress, as a "peerless great person."
On the 25th, North Korea wrote in a signed commentary by Bang Seong-hwa on page 2 of the Labor Newspaper, the Labor Party's official paper, titled "The people's joy overflows across the land," that with Kim re-endorsed as general secretary, "the entire people of the whole country are stirred with endless emotion and joy."
The commentary said the past five years "achieved and let us experience something so immense that others could not accomplish even over hundreds of years," calling it "in a word, a story of miracles." It listed Kim's concrete achievements as "absolute military power," "a great boom in construction," and "an era of regional transformation."
It described the Sinuiju greenhouse farm, completed earlier this month, as the site where "three miracles that astonished the world" took place. It added that Kim personally led the rescue of residents stranded during the Sinuiju floods in 2024, as well as the construction of the Wihwa Island district and the completion of the greenhouses.
North Korea highlighted benevolence as the source of greatness by putting forward Kim's political ideology of "people-first principle." The commentary lauded, "Our party is truly the great mother that creates any miracle if it is for the people," and said, "Comrade Kim Jong-un is strong and exceptional for love of the people, and with the power of that great love is unfolding an era of miracles as a 'peerless great person.'"
Earlier, at the fourth-day session of the 9th Labor Party Congress held on the 23rd, North Korea re-endorsed Kim as general secretary. At the time, Party Secretary Ri Il-hwan said in the proposal for endorsement that Kim had "achieved a great victory never before seen in our 5,000-year history and clearly distinguished even from the 75 years since liberation."