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Mental Power of Korea

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

   Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- "Standoff with the invader is standoff of mental power."
    This is the philosophy which the Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s left in the world history of wars.
    No one imagined the young DPRK would emerge the victor in the Fatherland Liberation War. The war, however, showed clearly that the outcome of a war depended not on the size of a territory and its population and economic and military potentials but on the mental power of the army and the people.
    The Korean War was the biggest war in history after the two world wars.
    The U.S. imperialists committed atrocities which would make even the beasts blush wherever they went. They did not think twice about starting a germ warfare. They dropped an average of 18 bombs per square kilometer on the DPRK, leveling its cities and villages with the ground.
    But they could not destroy the great revolutionary spirit of its army and people.
    The spirit of Korea which sent shivers down the spine of the aggressor was the spirit to defend the motherland with death, the spirit to defend its ideology and cause, system and happy life to the bitter end.
    With ideological resolution to devotedly defend President Kim Il Sung who liberated the country and brought its people a true life and happiness and safeguard the motherland, his bosom, to the last, the soldiers of the Korean People's Army fully displayed mass heroism and unrivalled heroism in the righteous battles for routing the aggressor.
    They opened the route of charge of their units by silencing the enemy's pillboxes with their bodies for the sole motherland, threw themselves under enemy tanks as human bombs and fought to the last drop of their blood to defend each inch of the land of the country.
    They worked military miracles unknown in the world history of wars: They liberated Seoul on the third day of the outbreak of the war and more than 90 percent of the area of the southern half of the country after one month. They delayed the landing of the enemy in Inchon for three days by fighting the enemy troops more than 50,000 strong, hundreds of warships and about 1,000 airplanes with only four artillery pieces, and captured Hill 351 in 15 minutes.
    Workers in the rear made hand grenades with bare hands and ensured wartime production by turning wheels with hands. Women of the rural area who launched into a plough-taking movement encouraged the People's Army soldiers by sending rice to the height in flame.
    The unshakable spirit to devotedly defend the country, the spirit to emerge the victor by defending the country, not slave by losing it sent firecrackers soaring into the sky on the day of victory in the war.
    Just as they won the Fatherland Liberation War under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung so the army and people of the DPRK will establish a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation without fail on the land of the country dyed with the blood of the forerunners with the mental power of the tens of millions of army men and people rallied with a single mind around General Secretary Kim Jong Il.