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Quintessence of National Strength of Songun Korea

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

   Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- The joint New Year editorial emphasized that the political and ideological might should be displayed fuller to glorify this year marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK as a year of historical turn which will go down in the history of the country.
    The political and ideological might is the quintessence of the national strength of Songun Korea.
    There are not in the world countries which have the political and ideological might as the quintessence of the national strength but countries which are proud of their military or economic strength.
    The political and ideological might of the DPRK is precisely the mental power of all the soldiers and people. It has been strengthened in the revolutionary spirit of Mt. Paektu through the tempest of history.
    The Korean people rehabilitated the devastated economy with patriotic zeal after the liberation of the country and healed the war wounds, brought about the great upsurge of Chollima and built a powerful socialist country independent, self-supporting and self-reliant in national defence with the might of unity after the Korean war. In the last decade of the 20th century, too, they with strong mental power rose as one to convert the "Arduous March" into a march to paradise without the slightest vacillation in the difficulties and ordeals.
    The kernel of the mental power is the spirit of defending the leader at the risk of their lives and their inexhaustible strength lies in the single-minded unity.
    Last year the Korean people demonstrated far and wide the political and ideological might, the true feature of the Korean-style socialism under which all people are united in one mind, through the functions celebrating the 95th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army.
    In particular, residents in the areas hit by a flood lost their houses, property and kith and kin but safely kept the portraits of the great persons of Mt. Paektu, thus clearly showing the spirit of guarding the leader with their very lives and the spirit of the single-minded unity.
    The Korean people are full of confidence and fighting spirit to attain a brilliant victory in the gigantic advance of the new year by displaying the political and ideological might to the full with the firm belief that if Kim Jong Il is with them, they will emerge victorious without fail and with the will to follow his leadership to the end.