Our-State-First Principle—Spiritual Mainstay
of Korean People
of Korean People
Today,
the Korean people are opening a new phase in the building of a
socialist power with a sure guarantee for achieving peace and
prosperity. The principle of our state first serves as their spiritual
mainstay in this struggle.
The principle of our state first is the pride and self-confidence in the greatness of the socialist country.
It
is a noble ideological feeling peculiar to the Korean people who have
achieved a great victory and eye-opening successes in the drive to build
a prosperous country by displaying their creative wisdom and launching
heroic struggle.
The
DPRK is a country which guarantees the position and role of the popular
masses as the masters of the state and society by law and embodies the
idea of believing in people as in heaven and the most advantageous
people-oriented policies, and a country of single-hearted unity where
the ideological oneness of the whole society has been achieved and all
its people are firmly rallied behind the leader.
Even
in the face of constant war threats, blockade and temptation, the
Korean people have built a powerful, independent national economy and
self-reliant defence capabilities by displaying the spirit of
self-reliance and self-development.
The
powerful political system of the state is being carried forward without
partiality, which guarantees the steady progress and bright future of
the DPRK.
The
thoroughgoing spirit of serving the people, the unitary character of
ideology, steadfast independence and consistent inheritance are the
features peculiar to the DPRK, and herein lies the secret of its
powerful national strength.
Through
the events to celebrate the 70th founding anniversary of the DPRK held
last year, the Korean people fully demonstrated the might of their
country, which achieved the ideological oneness of the whole society and
the single-hearted unity of the Party and the people and which
possesses a reliable self-supporting economy and self-reliant defence
capabilities, before the eyes of the world.
The principle of our state first is the ardent will to put the overall national strength on the highest level.
Consolidating the national strength is a matter vital the existence and development of a state.
It
is not easy to carry out the core tasks for building a prosperous and
independent country, but what is not easier is to safeguard and keep
developing the great gains so as to add eternal lustre to them through
generations.
It
is none other than the masses of the people that constitute the motive
force and are responsible for building a thriving country. Their full
awareness and will to steadily build up the overall national strength
and put it on the highest level serve as the powerful
politico-ideological strength in promoting the advance and leap forward
of socialism.
Regarding
the state affairs as more valuable than their family affairs, the
Korean people are now devoting themselves to the struggle for their
country’s development and prosperity. Thanks to the heroic struggle of
the people who, fully aware of their historic mission, turned out for
carrying out the Party’s new strategic line and other policies, the
foundations of the self-supporting economy were further consolidated, a
revolutionary turn was brought about in science and education and the
advanced level of Juche-oriented art and its peculiar features and
advantages were fully demonstrated last year. Without resting on their
laurels, they are pushing ahead with the grand march of self-reliance
from the outset of the new year. Their fighting mettle is the expression
of a high sense of revolutionary consciousness and strong will to
achieve the final victory of the cause of building a socialist power.
Such consciousness and will are reflected in the our-state-first
principle.
The
principle of our state first has nothing to do with the extreme
national egotism aimed at establishing an international order for one’s
own country, looking down upon other countries and nations and rejecting
them. The DPRK is the country which respects not only its independent
prestige and interests but also other countries’ sovereignty and
interests.
Cherishing
the principle as an element of their faith, no matter how the situation
and circumstances may change, and a patriotic desire for developing
their homeland by their own efforts before the eyes of the world, the
precious land of socialism which they have defended from generation to
generation, the Korean people are now stepping up the socialist economic
construction.
Dr. Kim Song Ok, associate professor of Kim Il Sung University
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