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Self-Reliance, Motive Power for Victory of Korean Revolution

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

   Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- The joint New Year editorial calls upon the entire people to run the economy by their own efforts, their own technology and their own resources with a determination that they must build a socialist paradise by themselves, noting that it is high time to dash forward toward the new eminence of the prosperity and development under the uplifted slogan of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the priceless tradition of the Korean revolution and driving force for victory.
    The Korean people have keenly experienced through protracted struggle that self-reliance is the only way of life and of continuous victory and prosperity.
    The indomitable spirit of the anti-Japanese guerrillas who made Yongil bombs with empty hand to defeat the brigandish Japanese imperialists and the heroic fighting spirit of the Korean people who built a socialist powerful nation, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, by their own efforts on the debris of the Korean war have been fully carried forward century after century.
    In the last decade of the 20th century, the economic construction of the DPRK had to undergo trying difficulties owing to the collapse of east European socialist countries and persistent sanctions forced upon by the imperialists. But the Korean people vigorously rose up without any vacillation with a firm resolution and will to build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation on their land by their own efforts, technology and natural resources.
    Their efforts resulted in launching an artificial satellite, a complex of updated science and technology, having a powerful deterrent for the national sovereignty and building the Kaechon-Thaesong Lake Water-way and other monumental edifices. The upsurge unprecedented in all sectors is the fine fruition of the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.
    The proud victories and changes achieved in the construction of a great, prosperous and powerful nation under the Songun revolutionary leadership of the Party harden the Korean people's confidence that self-reliance is best.
    Unswerving are the determination and will of the Korean people to accomplish the revolution with their own efforts no matter how the world may change and no matter what grave trials they may face.
    The Korean people will bring about the dawn of greater victory in the vigorous general march of Songun revolution with self-reliance, the theory of the revolution and a powerful wherewithal guaranteeing the construction of a socialist economic power, as a weapon.