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The Chosun Ilbo said Monday, citing a report by the official Rodong Shinmun daily, that Kim said decades after his father first began vowing to provide his people with food, North Korea remains reliant on international food assistance.

"In the past, the leader (Kim Il Sung) always said he wished to feed our people with rice and meat soup, clothe them in silk, and let them live in tile-roofed houses. But we haven't yet fulfilled his wishes. I will do everything to let our people live a content life by improving their lives in the shortest period possible", the North Korean leader was quoted as saying by the Rodung Shinmun.

Kim Il Sung first vowed to provide additional food for his people in 1946 and reiterated the promise on an annual basis.

"Now, our country has become a powerful nation in political, ideological and military terms, but we feel many things are still wanting in people's lives", the surviving Kim said of his country's current situation years after his father's 1994 death.

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