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Every Effort for Building Economic Power Called for

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

   Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- It is an urgent requirement for building a great prosperous powerful socialist country at present to vigorously accelerate the building of an economic power. Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a by-lined article. It goes on:
    Building an economic power is an important work to augment the national power in every way, above all, and thus turn the country into an invincible power.
    Economy serves as a material basis of political independence and the political independence of the country would be unthinkable without its powerful economic potential. Only when a party and a state building socialism depend on powerful economic potential of the state, can they shape a line and policies according to their own viewpoint and belief and dynamically push ahead with socialist construction in the interests of their revolution and people.
    Only when a country augments its economic potential and demonstrates the advantages of socialism in the development of economy while giving priority to the ideological work is it possible to better prepare its people as one strong in idea, possessed of high national self-esteem and firm faith in socialism, and consolidate the ideological position of a rich and powerful country like an invulnerable fortress.
    The state's powerful economic potential provides a basis of the defense industry. It can manufacture modern weapons and combat and technical equipment necessary for a modern war only when it develops its defence industry on the basis of the solid economic foundation. The whole army has been modernized and all the people have been placed under arms in the DPRK. This reality is a striking demonstration of the might of the nation's economic foundation.
    Building an economic power is also important for significantly improving the standard of the people's living to enable them to live in happiness with nothing to desire more in the world.
    Success in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation in all aspects by improving the standard of the people's living depends on how to build an economic power. It is impossible to materialize an ambitious plan and project for the improvement of the standard of the people's living unless material conditions for doing so are provided. It is an important guarantee for enabling the people to enjoy an affluent and highly civilized material and cultural life to build an economic power based on its solid economic foundation.