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Giving Top Priority to National Defence Called for

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, January 12 (KCNA) -- National defence is the most important of the state policy guaranteeing the country's grandeur and prosperity, the people's happiness and the victorious advance of the revolution and the lifeline on which the victory of the revolution and the fate of the nation hinge, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed article. It goes on: It is a lesson taught by history that a prosperous country can not be built without being guaranteed by a military force.
    The national defence is the most important affair in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation in the Songun era as it makes it possible to consolidate the anti-imperialist military front as firm as a rock, strengthen the revolutionary ranks to be the invincible ones based on the perfect unity in thinking and purpose and build up tremendous state economic potential.
    The history of the revolutionary struggle in the DPRK is a proud and victorious one as it has won one victory after another in the political and military confrontation with imperialism and protected the country, revolution and socialism by giving top priority to the national defence in the revolution. Political and military forces with the People's Army as a main force have grown invincible in the DPRK under the wise leadership the Workers' Party of Korea has provided, while giving priority to the national defence in each period of the revolutionary struggle and at its each stage. The WPK's Songun policy of attaching the greatest importance to the national defence in the revolution is a great policy as it has achieved the most solid unity of all servicepersons and people in thinking and purpose in the fierce class struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country. Enormous state economic potential in the Songun era is unthinkable without the development of the defence industry. This industry constitutes the lifeline for building a rich and powerful country and directing great efforts to bolstering the defence industry provides a sure guarantee for augmenting the state economic potential.