Peerlessly Great Persons

After his mystery tour, it looks like the Great Leader’s now back home. The DPRK’s Central News Agency reports on a successful trip:

Hu Jintao said that the WPK and the Korean people have made big achievements in building a great prosperous powerful nation, overcoming manifold difficulties in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the leadership of Kim Jong Il in recent years and made steady fresh success in the aspect of improving external environment, adding that he is sincerely rejoiced over this.

Hu Jintao supported the Party and the people of the DPRK in maintaining the orientation of socialist development and Korean comrades in seeking a path of development suited to the actual conditions of their country. He expressed conviction that under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the whole Party and country would unite close and work hard to achieve new successes in the cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation.

Kim Jong Il said that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China the PRC has achieved great successes in the socialist modernization drive with Chinese characteristics and that the progress made by China was ascribable to the line and policies suited to the actual conditions of China including the important thought of the “three represents” set out by the CPC, the view on scientific development and harmonious socialist construction. He expressed the belief that the Chinese people would attain the goals of the 11th 5-year plan under the leadership of the CPC with Hu Jintao as its general secretary to build a comprehensively well-off socialist society and achieve fresh success in the efforts to accomplish the cause of complete reunification of the country.

Both sides had an in-depth exchange of views on international and regional issues of common concern.

Well, that’s nice.

There’s more at the Korean Central News Agency, including the full speeches of Kim Jong-Il and Hu Jintao, plus a report on a “march on a snowy road to Jong Il Peak” by members of the Pyongyang Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League:

The march group, consisting of officials of the youth league and its members of middle schools from at least 10 districts of the city, laid bunches of flowers before the statue of President Kim Il Sung at Changdok School on the morning of Tuesday and made bows to him in humble reverence before marching toward Mt. Ryongak associated with the immortal revolutionary history of the peerlessly great persons.

After arriving in the mountain, the marchers conducted contests of songs “Song of Anti-Japanese War”, an immortal masterpiece, “The Patriotic Song”, “The Country I Am Defending” and “For the Only One Country”, and poems “Mt. Paektu”, “Mother” and “My Country”, vowing to prepare themselves to be reliable successors to the Songun revolution, single-mindedly rallied around leader Kim Jong Il.