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Strong Defence Power Called for

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- A military build-up is a key issue on which hinge victory or defeat of a revolution and rise or fall of a country and nation as the struggle for a victory of the people's cause of independence, the cause of socialism, is bound to be accompanied by a confrontation with the imperialists and all the counter-revolutionary forces in strength, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The people's cause of independence, cause of socialism, requires a military build-up, the build-up of strong revolutionary armed forces, the article says, and continues:
    A revolution can triumph only when it has strong revolutionary armed forces. Only when a nation has strong revolutionary armed forces, can it achieve national independence and emerge victorious in the revolutionary struggle for the social and class liberation.
    It is necessary to have strong revolutionary armed forces to defend the triumphant revolution.
    The imperialists are more desperately clinging to the "logic of strength". They are working hard to put the people under the yoke of colonial slavery again.
    It is impossible to defend the triumphant revolution without strong revolutionary armed forces. This is clearly evidenced by what happened in Iraq.
    Had Iraq built up strong national defence power, it would have beaten back the U.S. imperialists' armed invasion and defended the sovereignty of the country.
    It is necessary to have strong defence power to independently carve out destiny of the country and the nation. This is a serious lesson drawn by the army and people of the DPRK from their confrontation with the U.S. imperialists.
    Last year the U.S. imperialists more openly disclosed their wild ambition to stifle the DPRK by force of arms. But the DPRK neither hesitated nor flinched from the confrontation with the U.S. imperialists.
    It has always reacted to the U.S. hard-line policy with the toughest stand.
    The U.S. dared not to provoke the second Korean war as it was overawed by the DPRK's might.
    Socialism can never be defended through begging and compromise with enemies. It can be defended only by force.
    Arms of justice alone can guarantee victory of the revolutionary cause and the independence and prosperity of the country and the nation.