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Proud History of DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- Fiftysix years have elapsed since the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was founded on September 9, 1948. During the period, the DPRK has traveled a road of triumph.
    Before its birth, the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea and the People's Committee of North Korea carried out the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution successfully to consolidate the politico-economic foundation. Basing itself on this, the DPRK government, from the first days of its foundation, mobilized the entire people in the efforts to fulfill the Two-Year Plan of National Economy (1949-1950).
    The industrial output targets envisaged to be fulfilled by the first half of Juche 39 (1950) were attained in the main, with the result that the colonial lopsidedness was overcome considerably and the industrial output surpassed that in the period of the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule by far.
    Thanks to the vigorous illiteracy eradication campaign, the DPRK became the first country with no illiterate in the east in March 1949 where there was no illiterate.
    It emerged victorious in the Korean War (1950-1953) started by the U.S. imperialists and thus fully demonstrated its invincible might as a democratic, independent and sovereign country.
    The heroic Korean people humbled the arrogance of the aggressors who attempted to put down the DPRK in its cradle and put the U.S. imperialists on the downgrade for the first time in history.
    In a few years following the war, the people, under the leadership of the DPRK government, laid the foundation of an independent national economy in the main, though the U.S. imperialists raved that the DPRK could not revive within a hundred years.
    A socialist system was established in 1958 and the socialist industrialization completed 14 years after the war in the country.
    The DPRK government has aroused the people in the efforts for strengthening socialism under the banner of the three revolutions and converted the country into a dignified powerful nation, independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in national defence.
    All this is unthinkable apart from the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, founder of the DPRK.
    Today the Korean people, under the Songun-based revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il, are striving hard to build a great prosperous powerful nation, frustrating all manner of provocations of the imperialists