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a nation cannot defend its independence and dignity, nor can it bring happiness and prosperity to its people when it is not strong enough.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), under the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, has covered the glorious road of victory, bravely overcoming worst ever known adversities and challenges in the long and rigorous struggle against the allied forces of imperialism.
Frightened by this soaring spirit, the enemies run wild in their scheme to isolate and stifle DPRK by mobilising all political, economic and military strength.
This has led the situation of the country to a brink of war.
The Obama administration has engaged in reckless provocations against the DPRK over the past month, inflaming tensions in North East Asia and heightening the risks of war.
The flights to South Korea by nuclear capable B-52 bombers on March 8 and March 26, by B-2 bombers on March 28, and by advanced F-22 Raptor fighters on March 31 were all part of the script.
To meet the requirement of the prevailing situation and the development of revolution, the DPRK puts forward a new strategic line on parallel development of the economy and nuclear arms build-up.
Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), indicated in March that Our Party’s line on parallel growth of the economy and nuclear arms build-up is a strategic line that intends to strengthen and develop the nuclear arms bequeathed to us by the great General Kim Jong Il so as to fortify our defenses like an iron wall while directing more efforts to economic construction to build a powerful and prospering country where our people will enjoy the benefits of socialist wealth and glory to the full.
The parallel development of the two by DPRK is an inevitable demand of the created situation.
DPRK, taking to good account of the self-defensive war deterrence secured by life-long efforts of their great leaders, intended to focus on economic construction so that our people could enjoy the benefits of socialist wealth and glory, no longer having to put up with any hunger. But a new obstacle has cropped up on its way ahead.
Last December DPRK successfully launched an earth satellite for peaceful purpose.
But the US and its followers’ forces, wrangling about the satellite launch, invented an outrageous “resolution of sanction” of the United Nations Security Council, outlawing an independent state’s lawful right to satellite launch. What a diabolic act of hostility.
The created situation compelled DPRK to conduct the third underground nuclear test as a link of its practical countermeasures to defend the country’s sovereignty and security.
Things having come this far, the US and other hostile forces, thrown into a greater frenzy, cooked up a more high-handed “resolution of sanction”, and staged joint military exercises, “Key Resolve” and “Foal Eagle” to light the fuse to a nuclear war by involving huge armed forces of aggression.
These joint military exercises are still now in action and aggravating more tension by mobilising day-by-day more nuclear force means.
Under such circumstances, DPRK’s Army and the people, rose as one man in a battle of all-out confrontation against the US to answer a war of aggression with a just, great war of national reunification. The enemies, panic-stricken by the country’s extremely strong counter-measures, were too stunned to attempt any first try at us. But they have not given up the ambition to stifle the country. DPRK’s peaceful efforts for economic construction and for better livelihood of the people had to be accompanied by fierce struggle against the enemies, and the US scheme for stifling the country, the scheme to destroy its nuclear deterrence and socialist system by strangling it through tightened sanction, will be prolonged.
The United States’ hostile policy toward the DPRK has become ever more vicious of late. This can be accounted for by a shift of the US strategic centre for world domination to Asia-Pacific region and change in the target of its preferential strike, it being to Korea.
That’s why the US, picking up a quarrel with DPRK for its peaceful launch of a nuclear satellite, deliberately aggravated tension and, making it as an excuse, shipped in a huge armed force to conduct large-scale joint military exercises incessantly. The United States’ aim is to put the country without nukes and overthrow its system by hook or crook.
As the imperialists persist in their nuclear threat to DPRK, it will hold fast to the line of parallel growth of the economy and nuclear arms build-up and further augment its nuclear deterrence.
DPRK’s nuclear deterrence is a means of justice for defending the sovereignty of the country and safeguarding peace against war.
No force can stem the trend of history towards independence and justice. This was a statement issued on the occassion of the commemoration of the 101st birthday of the DPRK’s founding leader Kim Il-sung who was born on April 15, 1912 and died on July 8, 1994. Kim Il-sung was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-Il. The latter was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un on April 11, 2012. — Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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