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Full Play to Spirit of Self-Reliance Called for

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- Self-reliance represents a fighting trait and revolutionary spirit of solving all issues arising in the revolution and construction in reliance upon one's own strength, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article. The whole course in which the Korean revolution started and made progress is inseparably linked to the spirit of self-reliance, the article says, and goes on:
    It is thanks to this spirit that the Korean people were able to lay a strong foundation for self-supporting economy and steadily advance the socialist construction on that basis.
    The army and people of the DPRK strikingly demonstrated the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance in the last decade when they had to overcome the most rigorous ordeal.
    Leader Kim Jong Il has steered the revolution and construction in the faith of independence. He has led the army and people of the DPRK to surmount difficulties and ordeals relying upon their own strength in the strong spirit of national independence in order to defend socialism and build a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Today the Korean revolution urgently requires holding aloft the banner of self-reliance. Only when the spirit of self-reliance is fully displayed is it possible to defend Korean-style socialism to the last despite any desperate moves of the U.S. imperialists to stifle it.
    Self-reliance alone can help the DPRK increase its political and ideological might, to say nothing of military and economic potentials. When the DPRK remains politically and ideologically, militarily and economically strong, neither pressure nor military threat and economic sanctions on the part of the U.S. imperialists will work on it.
    A full play to this spirit would make it possible for the DPRK to bolster its economy its own way and build a great prosperous powerful nation.
    It is the consistent principle the WPK can never abandon in any adversity to maintain independence in politics, self-support in the economy and self-reliance in national defence, and self-reliance only provides the way of adhering to this revolutionary principle.
    Noting that Kim Jong Il has led the army and people of the DPRK in their struggle to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, the article stresses that the WPK and people of the DPRK will invariably maintain self-reliance as their revolutionary mode and a banner of their struggle and its army and people are sure to attain the goal of building a great prosperous powerful nation despite their temporary difficulties as long as they are led by him.