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Rodong Sinmun on Spirit of Self-Reliance and Fortitude

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

   Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- Victory of the Korean revolution and the revolutionary spirit of the Korean army and people are unthinkable without self-reliance and fortitude. Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.
    The achievements in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation are not accidental but the noble fruition of the sincere efforts of the Korean army and people who had a hard and bitter struggle, the article says, and goes on:
    The Korean people's spirit of self-reliance and fortitude is the noble spirit based on their ardent patriotism to build a great prosperous powerful nation of Juche on this land.
    The sacred patriotism of Kim Jong Il and his lofty devotion to the country and the nation serve as a motive power that pushes the Korean army and people to the creation of new miracles.
    The Korean people's spirit of self-reliance and fortitude is the spirit of unity in which they help and lead each other forward to effect collective innovations in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Their spirit of unity was the mental source of glorifying the era of the Workers' Party of Korea and the powerful motive force which laid a solid foundation for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    Since each country has its own economic life and builds economy in different circumstances there can be no "economic prosperity" to be benefited by others. The genuine prosperity of a country should be attained by the efforts of its nation in unity however difficult it may be.
    The Korean people's spirit of self-reliance and fortitude is the spirit of creation intended to lay solid foundations for the prosperity of the country and the nation on the basis of modern science and technology.
    All the Koreans are working hard to pioneer ultra-modern science and technology and develop the national economy.
    To develop science and technology, however hard it may be, is to make the country rich and powerful and glorify the dignity of the nation. This is the firm stand of the Korean people.