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Korean People Preserve Juche Character and National Character

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

  Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is consistently preserving the Juche character and national character in all fields of the social life as an important issue for the independent development of the nation.
    Kim Jong Il published the famous work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction" on June 19, Juche 86 (1997) to clearly indicate the road ahead of countries and nations.
    He, in the work, elaborates in a comprehensive way the tasks and ways in the efforts for keeping the Juche character and national character in the revolution and construction and realizing the prosperity of the country, including the issues of adhering to the patriotic stand and enhancing national pride and self-confidence.
    Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean people have independently settled all the problems arising in the socialist construction, holding fast to the Songun politics as main political mode of socialism and waged a dynamic struggle for smashing the ever-intensified moves of the imperialists to stifle the DPRK and defending the national sovereignty.
    An energetic work has been undertaken to give full play to the superiority of the nation. As a result, the historical relics have been restored to their original state in accordance with the principles of historicism and modern character and the living practices, good manners and customs peculiar to the nation have been developed and enriched.
    The folk holidays and folk amusement games have been encouraged, folk streets built in cities and the folk food restaurants made their appearance.
    Literature and art, national in form and socialist in content, have been effloresced brilliantly. The mass gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" was completed into an extravaganza and world startling-successes were made in art fields of feature film, circus and fine arts.
    The historic Pyongyang meeting was realized and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was published amid the surging enthusiasm of the fellow-countrymen to achieve national reunification with the concerted efforts of the nation, thus opening up a new era of the great unity of the whole nation in the course of launching the movement for the independent reunification under the idea of "By our nation itself".
    All these successes of the Korean people prove clearly the validity and vitality of the idea of preserving the Juche character and national character in the revolution and construction.