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Proud History of DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are looking back on the proud history of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with the approach of its 55th founding anniversary, which falls on September 9. President Kim Il Sung liberated the country from the nearly half-a-century-long military occupation by the Japanese imperialists in 1945, built a democratic, independent and sovereign state in a matter of three years following the liberation and thus opened up a bright vista for the DPRK.
    The DPRK provided a new independent and creative life to the people by building democratic Korea under his guidance.
    The U.S. imperialists launched an invasion against the DPRK in June Juche 39 (1950), two years after its founding.
    Under the banner of the DPRK the Korean People's Army and people heroically fought and won a brilliant victory in the three-year-long war.
    They established the socialist system in 1958 to put a period to the history of exploitation and oppression in Korea for good and all and realized the socialist industrialization within 14 years after the war.
    The DPRK government has consistently adhered to the principle of Juche in ideology, independence in politics, self-support in economy and self-reliance in defence. As a result it has turned the country into a powerful socialist one unaffected by any political and economic fluctuation.
    It shaped such popular policies as the universal free medical service in 1953 and universal free education in 1959 and the complete abolition of taxation in 1974.
    Today the DPRK is ushering in an era of greater prosperity under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Since President Kim Il Sung passed away in 1994, Kim Jong Il has pursued a new politics based on the Songun idea to frustrate the imperialists' persistent efforts to isolate and stifle the country, defend it with credit, and fully demonstrate the might of the DPRK.
    In 2001 alone, some ten countries opened diplomatic relations with the DPRK. The fact is illustrative of the prestige the DPRK enjoys in external relations.
    Since the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the relations between the north and south of Korea have been turned into those of national reconciliation, unity and cooperation from those of confrontation and distrust and a great advance made in the efforts for the reunification of the country.
    The entire Korean people are now working hard to build a great prosperous powerful nation on this land without fail under the leadership of Kim Jong Il.