The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, who was born on February 16 ,1942 as the son of guerillas at Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of the revolution, and had grown into a great revolutionary, had led the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Korean people with wise leadership over a long period, thus performing the immortal exploits on behalf of his motherland and people as well as the era and the history.His life was the most brilliant life of a great revolutionary who pioneered a thorny, untrodden path of the revolution by displaying an iron will and superhuman energy, holding high the red banner of the revolution, and the most ennobling life of a peerless patriot who devoted his all to the prosperity of his motherland and well-being of fellow people.