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Increased Military Strength Called for

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

   Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Peoples treasuring independence should increase their national defence capability with the steadfast revolutionary faith to foil the imperialists' aggression moves.
    Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article.
    The situation in Iraq has taught how important and decisive the military affairs are in the struggle for the popular masses' cause of independence, the cause of socialism, the article says, and goes on:
    The powerful military force is the most dependable guarantee for independently carving out the destiny of each country and nation.
    This is a serious lesson the army and people of the DPRK drew from the showdown with the U.S. imperialists.
    In recent years the U.S. imperialists got evermore undisguised in their ambition to stifle the DPRK by force. As a result, the dangerous military tension under which a war may break out anytime prevailed in the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK, which has been consolidated into an invincible bulwark under the great Songun policy, took resolute self-defensive measure against the U.S. imperialists' war moves and pressure, and thus demonstrated to the whole world the mettle and might of Songun Korea. On the basis of the Songun idea and the line of attaching importance to military affairs, the DPRK has persistently directed primary efforts to increasing the national defence capability to build up the combat efficiency of the Korean People's Army in every way and develop the self-reliant national defence industry. But for our invincible revolutionary armed forces and self-reliant national defence industry, a war would have already broken out in the Korean Peninsula by the imperialists and Korean-style socialism could have hardly been defended.
    Peace can never be ensured by means of begging and compromise. It can be achieved and defended only by the tremendous military force.
    To further increase the military strength is more indispensable for the developing countries or small countries.
    It is more important in the present showdown with the imperialists and the U.S. to keep the unshakable revolutionary faith. A people strong in faith can defend the dignity of their country and nation and emerge as final victors, but when they fail to keep such faith, they will face death, misfortune and national ruin. This is a serious lesson taught by the world situation at present.