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Trend of Independence Irresistible

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 11 (KCNA) -- Nothing can stem the trend of the international situation towards independence, says Rodong Sinmun Saturday in a signed article. Noting that the international situation this year is characterized by the intensified criminal moves of the U.S. imperialists to hold in check the historic advance of humankind for independence, progress and peace, the article recalls that the U.S. has focused its efforts on the reorganization and redeployment of its forces overseas in accordance with its strategy for world domination in the new century and the "strategy for combating terrorism".
    The article goes on:
    The redeployment of the U.S. forces overseas was mainly aimed to prepare and round off the multi-faceted military operation to escalate the "war against terrorism" worldwide. The U.S. applied diverse methods to this war involving military option, operation to realize regime change, economic sanctions, blockade and an operation to create confusion.
    This year progressive humankind has vigorously advanced along the road of independence and peace despite vicious challenges and obstructions of international reactionary forces.
    This year the Iraqi resistance forces have ceaselessly staged military actions in various parts of the country to drive out the U.S. occupation forces and many countries shunned or opposed the U.S. "war against terrorism," aware of its injustice.
    What merits attention is that those countries which had dispatched troops to Iraq in support of the U.S. "war against terrorism" took measures to pull their forces from there one after another.
    Europe, strongly reacting to the U.S. arbitrary practices and unilateralism, pushed ahead with the regional integration and put spurs to the building of a multi-polar world. The developing countries have dynamically advanced along the road of independent development in a bid to ensure the security and prosperity of the region by their concerted efforts despite the challenge of imperialists keen to realize the "globalization."
    This is evidenced by the establishment of the Council for Peace and Security of the African Union and the conclusion of a free trade agreement between the Southern Common Market and the Andes Community of Nations.
    It has become a trend of the times that the world supports and follows the policy of attaching importance to the military affairs, the Songun politics, and applies it to building up self-defensive capability and augmenting the state power. This is a main review of the international situation this year.
    Witnessing this trend, the world revolutionary people came to know well who is the enemy of independence and peace and what they should do to defend the destiny of their countries and nations and accelerate the process of global independence. They are called upon to unite as one to decisively frustrate the U.S. imperialists' high-handed practices, unilateral policy and their "strategy for war against terrorism" and take the initiative to foil whatever moves for aggression by force of arms.
    This year the DPRK has reacted to the U.S. imperialists' reckless war moves and pressure with its strong self-defensive measures, thus demonstrating the mettle and might of the country pursuing the Songun policy to the whole world, the article concludes.