Rodong Sinmun on Songun idea
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- It is a fundamental requirement of the building of a great prosperous power, clarified by the Songun idea, to put forward the Korean People's Army as the main force of defending and building the country and enhance its role.
Rodong Sinmun says this today in a signed article.
It is the principle made clear by the Songun idea that the successful building of a great prosperous power and the victory of the popular masses' cause of independence are made sure only by the hardcore and leading role of the army, the paper notes, and goes on:
In the DPRK, the KPA carries on the duty of defending the country and the building of a great prosperous power as the driving force, the main force of the revolution.
The state and political system with powerful national defence as its prime object has been firmly established under the wise Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il and its might is demonstrating as days go by.
The building of a great prosperous power is militarily and politically guaranteed by the Korean-style state structural system under which all state affairs are dealt with on the principle of attaching great importance to arms and priority to military affair, guided by the Songun idea in state building and activities..
The building of a great prosperous power requires holding fast to the line of economic construction in the Songun era, modelling all the members of the society on the revolutionary army and cementing their single-hearted unity.
The reality of the DPRK clearly proves that only when it simultaneously develops light industry and agriculture while preferentially developing the national defence industry can it build up its national power.
A great prosperous power will be creditably built when all the people unite around the leader and the army and the people are unanimous in ideology, spirit and way of struggle.
