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Rodong Sinmun on Faith in Independence

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

   Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- Faith in independence has made DPRK display its imposing sight as an ever-victorious powerful state and its people grow as a heroic people carving out the new era of history in the van, declares Rodong Sinmun in an editorial article Wednesday, a summary of which reads: Faith in independence is the best weapon for the prosperity of the country.
    It is the main factor on which depend the ups and downs of a country and a nation.
    The greatest wealth and asset of the prosperity of the country is faith in independence.
    Only a people strong in this faith can add shine to the honor and dignity of the country and hew a true road of national prosperity.
    Faith in independence is a powerful weapon to defend the dignity and rights of the nation.
    It is immediately the dignity and authority of the nation.
    Faith in independence is the mental source in bringing up the army and the people into indomitable fighters.
    The people of the DPRK are a dignified people who have grown strong with firm faith in themselves.
    Faith in independence is an asset guaranteeing the constant development of the national economy.
    An economy suitable to the country's conditions and serving its own people is one built with faith in independence.
    The building of the national economy based on faith in independence is a true path of prosperity and leap.
    The army and people of the DPRK are strong-willed heroic ones who treasure the spirit of national independence as their own lives.
    Their faith in independence is unshakable ideological sentiments based on the conviction of the justice of the cause of the Songun revolution of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    Underlying their strong spirit of independence is the rock-firm conviction of the victory of the Party's cause of Songun revolution.
    Songun is, so to speak, dignity, sovereignty and right to existence.
    The conviction of the victory of the cause of Songun revolution cherished by the army and people of the DPRK today is immediately unquestioned trust in leader Kim Jong Il, the peerlessly brilliant commander of Songun.
    Their faith in independence is an invincible spiritual strength based on the most solid unity of the army and the people.
    Their single-minded unity forged in the protracted struggle for national independence and lifted to a new, higher stage in the flames of the Songun revolution is the invincible treasured sword of Songun Korea stronger than a nuclear weapon and a fundamental source of the independent spirit of the people.
    Their faith in independence is noble ideological sentiments spurting from the national pride in the great power of the state.
    This power is a firm guarantee for defense of the country's sovereignty and national prosperity.
    It is the unanimous desire and will of the army and people of the DPRK to glorify the height of prosperity of the country by rushing forward like the wind with faith in independence and burning patriotic zeal.
    The army and people of the DPRK should stir up themselves once again as they have brought happiness by pulling through manifold difficulties in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle and display the mettle of the nation to the world and make a leaping progress like the wind towards the peak of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    They should struggle with the Juche idea and Songun idea as the eternal guideline of life and fight.
    They should establish the monolithic system of leadership of the headquarters of the revolution more thoroughly in the whole party, army and society and consolidate army-people unity based on the Songun idea in every way.
    They should treasure the precious gains of the revolution and give full scope to the superiority of the nation.
    They should turn out as one man in the general march for the prosperity of the country with the ardent zeal of patriotism.
    They should display the honor and pride of the DPRK citizens with great ability.
    An endless bright future has been unfolded before the army and the people of the DPRK today.