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Holding High Banner of Songun Called for

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

   Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- The banner of Songun held higher by Kim Jong Il, inheriting President Kim Il Sung's idea and tradition of Songun, has served as a great banner of independence and a treasured sword reflecting patriotism as it has put the dignity and pride of the Korean nation on the highest level. Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article. It goes on:
    The sovereignty and dignity of a nation can be firmly protected by the force of arms.
    Independence would be unthinkable unless it is guaranteed by the force of arms. One cannot counter any hostile forces with empty talk and fists when they come out to attack one with bayonet in order to violate one's independence. It is necessary to beat back armed invasion with arms and return fire for fire.
    The history of the Korean nation taught us a bitter lesson that a country with a weak army cannot defend its national sovereignty and is bound to meet a wretched lot of a ruined nation as miserable as a dog in a house of death.
    The world history and the present reality also clearly suggest that a country with a weak army can never exercise political independence and influence in the international arena and will allow itself to have its sovereignty violated by foreign forces in the end.
    The great banner of Songun has served as an invincible treasured sword as it has defended the sovereignty and dignity of the Korean nation with powerful armed forces from the high-handed acts and aggression and paved a wide avenue of accomplishing the cause of national independence.
    The idea of Songun that clarified the Juche-oriented philosophy on the army and the principle of army building provided a sure guarantee for winning victory in the acute confrontation with armed hostile forces and independently carving out the destiny of the Korean nation. The Korean revolution aimed to achieve national independence started and has emerged victorious with arms.
    National independence would be unthinkable apart from Songun. The Korean nation had no one to whom it could complain even when Japan forced Korea to sign a treaty that led to a national ruin by mobilizing artillery pieces and guns and stormed into the Royal palace to burn its Queen to death in the past. But today more than a century since then, the Korean nation is displaying its dignity as a strong nation with tremendous deterrence and is strong enough to wipe out any formidable enemy. This is the pride and honor brought by Songun to the Korean nation.
    Such high dignity and honor of the Korean nation are ascribable to Songun. It has become a source of the dignity, pride and might of the nation.
    No force on earth can ever match this invincible might of Songun.