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Strengthening of National Defence Capability Called for

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

   Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- Attaching importance to the army and military affairs provides a sure guarantee for the victory in the struggle against imperialism. The history of the last century clearly proved this importance.
    Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a signed article.
    Noting that big and small wars that broke out in the 20th century due to the imperialists' armed intervention and military provocations teach a serious historical lesson that if a country and nation attach no importance to an army and have weak military power, they can hardly beat back the imperialists' aggression and armed intervention and never escape the lot of being a ruined nation, the article goes on:
    The world history of politics in the 20th century also teaches truth that if a country lacks a leader's guidance and neglects an ideological work, it can hardly play its role properly no matter what powerful military power it has.
    In accomplishing the popular masses' cause of independence, the cause of socialism, the army should become that of their leader both in name and reality and should be capable of creditably performing its mission, regarding the leader's ideas as its faith. Attaching importance to arms means building and consolidating this type of army.
    Wars fought in the 21st century go to prove that an army without faith, the army that easily falls victim to the imperialists' psychological warfare, is useless.
    A country is sure to triumph if it attaches importance to arms. This was clearly evidenced by practical experience of the DPRK.
    Kim Jong Il demonstrated the dignity of the country and the nation and protected socialism and peace, holding aloft the banner of the Songun politics based on the idea of attaching importance to the military affairs and the army in the period when the international movement for socialism was in danger and the imperialists' moves against socialism and the DPRK got more undisguised than ever before. The Songun politics won miraculous victory in the acute political and military confrontation with ferocious enemies as it has solved all the problems on the principle of putting military affairs before anything else.
    Kim Jong Il's Songun politics serves as an all-powerful treasured sword and a symbol of victory because it guarantees not only the present but the future of humankind.