Kim Chong-il’s guidance activities as mirrored in the recent North Korean press

Conclusion

We have made a brief review of Kim Chong-il’s guidance activities as disclosed by North Korean media. The media may be overstating or fabricating facts of promote the personality cult of the young Kim. However, they reveal that Kim Chong-il exerts his best efforts to safe-guard his father’s revolutionary thought and that this is consistent with the elder Kim’s wishes. In his programs focused on his father’s wishes is found his intent to brave anything in order to get his father’s full support in the course of establishing his own unchallengeable leadership.