Regarding Self-reliance as a Treasured Sword for Prosperity

At the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in December last year, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said that we should make a frontal breakthrough by dint of self-reliance to tide over the difficulties lying in the way of advance of socialist construction.

The spirit of self-reliance has always served as the banner of struggle and the dynamic force for achieving a leaping forward.

The spirit of self-reliance to carve out one’s own destiny by oneself is based on the Juche idea.

The Juche idea was authored by President Kim Il Sung.

He embarked on the road of revolution in his teens with a great ambition to win back his country deprived of by the Japanese imperialists and clarified the principle of the Juche idea that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and the Korean revolution must be carried out by the Korean people themselves.

Under the banner of Juche, the anti-Japanese guerrillas led by Commander Kim Il Sung achieved the historic cause of Korea’s liberation by fighting against the aggressors. During the anti-Japanese struggle, they made weapons and ammunitions and solved all the problems, including food, medical supplies and military uniforms, by themselves even under the difficult situation where they had neither state backing nor support of a regular army.

The Korean people accelerated the building of a new country after national liberation, restoring factories destroyed by the Japanese imperialists during their flights, and stepped up the rehabilitation of devastated factories and villages on the ruins of the war. Credit for such miracles must go to the fact they cherished the Juche idea and the spirit of self-reliance as their steadfast faith.

Thanks to the idea and spirit, they completed the socialist industrialization in 14 years and built a socialist state independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence. Even under the worst situation when they were undergoing trying ordeals due to the allied imperialist forces’ moves to isolate and stifle their country and the continuous natural disasters they firmly defended socialism and laid a springboard for the building of a powerful socialist country.

In the protracted and harsh environment unprecedented in history, they have learned to deal with the enemies and difficulties and defend their dignity and rights and cherished self-reliance and self-development as their lifeline and mode of existence. They are now working miracles, giving full play to the strength of their indomitable spirit.

Many monumental structures, including the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station, Ryomyong Street and Samjiyon City, Jungphyong Vegetable Greenhouse Farm and Tree Nursery and Yangdok Hot Spring Resort, have been built in recent years in the DPRK. All of them represent the mettle of the Korean people who are firmly determined to create their own things and beat the world by their own efforts.

The history of victory of the DPRK will continue forever as it makes progress, regarding self-reliance as a treasure sword for prosperity.