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Rodong Sinmun on Patriotism

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

   Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- Patriotism comes out of high pride and confidence in the superiority and strength of one's own country and nation, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    A genuine patriot loves his own things and steadily glorifies them.
    Ours are all the precious things in this land; the ideological, moral and material wealth we have achieved in the course of the revolution and construction with our own wisdom, enthusiasm and efforts under the leadership of the great leaders and the great party, the time-honored history and brilliant cultural tradition created by our nation and the beautiful mountains and rivers of the country.
    For the Korean people, their own things are associated with the socialist motherland. The socialist motherland is the whole of ours.
    Warm love for one's own serves as the source of high national self-respect and revolutionary pride.
    The Korean people have lived in this land down through generations and created a lot of wealth, which the nation can boast in the world, by their own diligent efforts and amazing talents. Such proud people can hardly be found in the world as the Korean people who have the great guiding idea clearly indicating the way for carving out the nation's destiny and live and make revolution in the advantageous socialist system where the perfect unity in mind has been realized and the independent position and the creative role of the popular masses are ensured on the highest level.
    In the past period of the "Arduous March" and the forced march, the Korean people built world-startling monumental edifices with high ambition and in a do-or-die spirit without vacillation despite grave ordeals.
    Nothing can break the spirit of the popular masses who advance full of confidence and vigor, regarding as the most precious the edifices built by themselves and the blood and sweats permeated in them.
    The warm love for one's own things serves as the motive force for consolidating the self-supporting national economy in any circumstances.
    The future of our country is very rosy as there are many genuine patriots who unhesitatingly devote their blood and sweats before saying that they love the country, the people who devotedly strive to make ours much more and better than others'.