Korean People is Vigorously Advancing Towards New Victory

IT is my honor to present my discourse titled “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Self-Reliant and Self-Prosperous” to the internet international seminar jointly hosted by the organizing committee of the International Festival for Praising Great Person of Mt. Paektu and Indonesian Association for Exchange of Friendship and Culture with Korea on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Today Korean people is vigorously advancing towards new victory in the building of a powerful socialist nation upholding the banner of self-reliance and self-prosperity under the wise leadership of the great Workers’ Party of Korea. Self-reliance is the method and principle of struggle of Korean people who consider the independence and self-existence as their lives, and the remarkable successes and miracles, the Workers’ Party of Korea and Korean people made during the past decades overcoming severe trials and adversity are the precious fruition of the self-reliance.

The true image of Juche Korea lies in the fact that the self-reliance is the state policy and trait of the country and today the DPRK is demonstrating its high dignity and invincible might which nobody can dare provoke.

For the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Korean people, self-reliance is not a temporary countermeasure to the requirement of political development and break through the difficulties and trials on the way of advance, but it is invariable political line consistently maintained as the fundamental direction and development method of the socialist construction.

As history shows, the dependence on the outside forces is the road subordination and national ruin and the independent way is the only way for survival.

The Great Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il consistently adhered to the independent position and self-reliance shaping their destiny by believing in their people and relying on their people’s power throughout the whole course of the Korean revolution.

Under the wise leadership of the Great Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il, Korean people have firmly held fast to and thoroughly applied the line of independence from the first step of the anti-Japanese revolution and victoriously advanced the revolution and construction holding fast to the tradition of self-prosperity.

The fighting spirit of the WPK and the Korean people creating their happiness with their own hands despite all difficulties, already shows the world the truth that one can live well by its own efforts and open the way to development and prosperity in one’s own way. All countries and nations must follow the spirit of self-reliance and self-prosperity of the DPRK which depends on its own efforts, natural resources and technology in order to successfully carry out and accomplish the revolution and construction.

Today the WPK and the DPRK are mobilizing and utilizing the might and wisdom of their people, natural resources of their country and domestic resources to the maximum in their revolutionary struggle. The heroic Korean people upholding the banner of self-reliance, built a socialist industrial state in a short period of time and achieved victorious advance of national self-defense industry during the period of many folded severe trials due to the harsh sanction and blockade by the hostile forces.

At present all wonderful events taking place and monumental buildings being built in the DPRK to the astonishment of the world are valuable fruit of the patriotic blood and sweat of the Korean people and their strenuous spirit. Korean people is displaying their dignity and honor of their country and nation by creating everything better, much more and faster using their own power and technology.

The independent national economy of Juche Korea built the spirit of self-reliance smashing the maneuvers of sanctions and blockade of the hostile forces for centuries, is the main of framework that makes it possible to achieve the rapid development without the external assistance.

Self-reliance and the independent national economy are the basis of the existence of the Korean-style socialism and the motive forces of advance and development, and precious sword of the prosperity. Korean people learned the methods of living on its own, overcoming difficulties and defending their dignity and rights through prolonged arduous complicated situation.

It is none other than the strong will and stamina of Juche Korea to defend the sovereignty and supreme interest of the country at any cost even though they have to fasten their belt. Today the proud tradition of self-reliance of the WPK and the Korean people and its validity are being more vividly demonstrated thanks to the wise leadership of the Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un.

No force in this world can check the revolutionary march of the WPK and the Korean people advancing under the banner of self-reliance and self-prosperity. For holding high Comrade Kim Jong Un as a Supreme Leader of the party, state and armed forces, the Korean People will carve out their path for the future with their own efforts and surely build the powerful socialist nation thriving by its own ability upholding the self-reliance as invincible precious sword and everlasting banner.