Era of Transformation Vigorously Advancing by Dint of Self-Reliance
We are living in a brilliant era of great change today.
Creations of modern civilization are mushrooming in every part of the capital city and provinces to remould the people’s ideological consciousness and change their life rhythm. Party policies aspiring to steady development and new things are being adopted one after another.
Self-reliance and self-respect--herein lies the basic guarantee for achieving unprecedentedly miraculous victory in any adversity, the key to our steady and dynamic advance and a sure prospect for all the aimed undertakings.
At present the whole world clearly witnesses what striking successes are being achieved by Korean people who rise up with a firm confidence in their strength.
Greater efforts were directed to the technical rehabilitation, reinforcement and development in all sectors of the national economy.
This put the overall economy on a track of growth, laid the material and technical foundations for the growth of production and created a bold and comprehensive new trend of simultaneously transforming the capital city and regions, the whole country in other words.
People-oriented policies are increasing day by day in spite of prevailing ordeals and obstacles, and they are being executed in the most responsible way.
This is evidenced by the gigantic reality in which regions undergo transformations.
It is a brilliant victory of the spirit of self-reliance and self-respect which solves all problems by relying on people with firm belief in their strength that the regional transformation, the greatest revolution for bringing about a radical change not only in the appearance of the regions but also in the realm of people’s consciousness, is being pushed forward according to the set timetable, our courage and determination.
Respected General Secretary
The political line of ensuring self-reliance by believing in our people and sustaining our fighting traditions is the firm creed cherished by the respected General Secretary and a motive force bringing about today’s great transformation.
The respected General Secretary has invariably adhered to the principles and methods of dealing with problems that rely entirely on our own strength during the whole period of his revolutionary guidance and this political mode whose might is being highlighted day by day along with the great vitality of its creations is indeed the fundamental source of creating everything from nothing.
Our people still remember the words the respected General Secretary gave at the inauguration ceremony of dwelling houses in flood-hit areas of North Phyongan Province.
Frankly speaking, when we launched into the campaign, several countries and international organizations expressed their will to assist us, but we made clear our determination to remain faithful to our approach to resolving problems by our own efforts at all costs, he said, adding that this was because we were confident in our own strength and, more importantly, our self-supporting spiritual and material asset that had to be developed further during this challenging project was more precious than anything else.
When the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station, the creation by the sacred struggle of the people of Kangwon Province, greeted its inauguration, the respected General Secretary greatly valued the self-reliant willpower and inexhaustible strength with which Kangwon Province, that has a smaller population and weaker industrial foundations than other provinces, built by its own efforts the power station.
Indeed, the past １０-odd-year history of the respected General Secretary’s revolutionary guidance is run through with the word "self-reliance".
The fighting spirit of self-reliance created in the flames of the anti-Japanese armed struggle served as an unfurled banner in the complicated period of building a new country, the Fatherland Liberation War period, the period of postwar reconstruction and the stirring years of socialist construction.
Moreover, this spirit is arousing all the people across the country to a greater victory.
It is just the respected General Secretary who has held higher the banner of self-reliance and self-respect in the new era.
It is the firm creed of the respected General Secretary that no one wants us to become stronger and develop and that the way to defending our lives and advancing the revolution lies in self-reliance and self-development.
Those trials and obstacles we were confronted with for the past １０-odd years were unprecedented ones in the history of the Republic.
In particular, the last five years were a long series of unforgettable days when we were faced with greater ordeals and challenges day by day.
Nevertheless, our people not only overcame those severe obstacles but also have advanced towards a brighter future while successively launching revolutions aimed at an epochal transformation.
Numberless are the places the respected General Secretary visited this year.
The construction site of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm, major munitions factories, the fourth-stage construction site of the Hwasong area, the Samgwang Livestock Farm, the Sangwon Cement Complex, the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine…
The respected General Secretary is most pleased to meet fighters of self-reliance and whenever he sees entities of new life, new civilization, he holds dearer the spirit of self-reliance and self-respect which gave birth to those entities.
At the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the respected General Secretary affirmed that just like we did in the past five-year struggle in which we pioneered the era of comprehensive development of socialism, we will completely rely on our internal force, the great might of our people, in the new upcoming five-year struggle.
At the First Session of the １５th Supreme People’s Assembly, too, he said that the past decade clearly showed that no objective conditions and circumstances can ever check the advance of a state and people that have turned out in the struggle to shape their future, rallied as one with a firm faith, and that the most correct road to prosperity is to achieve self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
Then he affirmed that everything that leads the long and great history of our State to a better future is in our hands, and their success depends entirely on our strenuous efforts.
Under the guidance of the respected General Secretary who brings up our people as the most powerful ones armed with the strong might of self-respect, our country will advance more dynamically along the road of self-reliance, self-development, and greet all victory and glory on that road.
Rodong Sinmun