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DPRK, Powerful Nation of Independence, Self-support and Self-defence

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

   Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- The DPRK is a dignified powerful socialist country of independence, self-support and self-defence.
    It was the noble idea and cause set forth by President Kim Il Sung in the early years of his revolutionary activities to build a rich and powerful, independent and sovereign state in the liberated country.
    He accumulated a precious experience in the building of an independent and sovereign state under the banner of establishment of Juche in the days of the sanguinary anti-Japanese warfare. Basing himself on this, he founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 9, Juche 37 (1948).
    The DPRK has since regarded it as one of the most cardinal issues related to the destiny of the country and nation to hold fast to independence in its activities and vigorously advanced along the path of independence indicated by the great Juche idea. The struggle for establishing Juche in the revolution and construction was difficult, indeed.
    Korea has been divided by outside forces, the U.S.-led imperialist reactionaries persisted in moves to provoke a new war and economic blockades against the DPRK and the great power chauvinists put pressure on it firmly adhering to an independent stand. It, however, has pushed ahead the revolution victoriously, foiling all the challenges of history categorically with the conviction of independence and the revolutionary principles.
    It had never deviated from the one road of Juche even in the period of "Arduous March" and the forced march when its destiny was at the crossroads of life and death owing to the unprecedentedly intensified isolation and suffocation of the DPRK by the imperialist reactionaries and the consecutive natural disasters after the national funeral.
    General Secretary Kim Jong Il, with clear-cut penetration into the requirements of the time in which the anti-imperialist military front became the main one of the revolution, established the mode of Songun politics applying the Juche idea in an all-round way so as to increase the politico-ideological might of the country in every way.
    He saw to it that the primary efforts were directed to the development of the munitions industry while preparing all the servicepersons of the Korean People's Army to be the ideologically strong men and a-match-for-a-hundred stalwarts through uninterrupted field inspection of KPA units. Under his energetic leadership the self-reliant defense capabilities of the country have been consolidated to be invincible one.
    He also energetically led the whole army and the entire people to forcefully accelerate the socialist economic construction, holding higher the banner of self-reliance.
    Over last ten-odd years the DPRK has carried on grand nature-remaking projects successfully to change the looks of the territory, built modern factories, production bases and other monumental edifices in different parts of the country and energetically undertaken technological updating of the national economy, registering startling achievements.
    The grandiose sunrise of building a great, prosperous and powerful nation in the DPRK which bridged over ordeals proves once again that the line of independence, self-support and self-defense kept by the DPRK is entirely correct.