They are the noble ideological emotion of revolutionaries who valiantly go through ordeals and difficulties, love the future and live an optimistic life with unswerving belief in the justness of the revolutionary cause and the inevitability of its triumph.

The source of the Korean people's confidence and optimism lies in having General Secretary Kim Jong Il in the van of the revolution.

Kim Jong Il, who has boundless loyalty and pure morality to President Kim Il Sung, leadership ability of solving all problems in proper combination of politics with military affairs, rare wisdom of far-sightedness and revolutionary sweep, has wisely led the army and people from many years ago in the efforts for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of the President.

He with his prominent political caliber has always guided the Korean revolution to victory with the result that the DPRK has turned into the socialist country of Juche fully demonstrating the might of the independent national economy as a politically and ideologically strong nation and a military power and its people have enjoyed an independent life to their hearts' content with high pride.

His Songun politics enables the Korean people to display fuller the honor of being the revolutionary people with confidence in sure victory and optimism.

Another source of their confidence and optimism is found in having the tradition of self-reliance.

The revolutionary spirit of self-reliance is a traditional fighting spirit of the Korean people and the invincible revolutionary spirit whose might has been proved through the historical course of the Korean revolution.

Overcoming the ever-intensified moves of the imperialist reactionaries against the DPRK and multifold natural disasters, they have all along adhered to the revolutionary principle of Juche, the principle of self-reliance, under the Songun revolutionary leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea and victoriously concluded the "Arduous March" and the forced march, thus laying a solid foundation for leaping to the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

They will, in the future, too, stubbornly strive to carry the Juche-oriented revolutionary cause to accomplishment with the unwavering belief that a rich and powerful socialist country will be certainly constructed as long as Kim Jong Il stands in the van of the Songun revolution and there is the tradition of self-reliance.