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Korean People's Spirit of Self-Reliance Praised
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Foreigners who visited the DPRK expressed deep admiration at the heroic struggle of the Korean people who are working miracles and feats while overcoming all sorts of hardships and difficulties in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude.

Ksor Phuoc, chairman of the National Council of the Vietnamese National Assembly, said that through visit to the Three-Revolution Exhibition he came to know well about the economic potential of the DPRK, adding that the Korean people built a powerful, independent national economy under the difficult conditions where they were hard pressed for everything.

He expressed the belief that the Korean people would achieve greater successes in the efforts to build a great prosperous and powerful nation and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country under the wise leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

A member of the delegation of the World Intellectual Property Organization said that the visit to the DPRK convinced him that the West's propaganda about the DPRK is distortion of facts.

Pyongyang has turned into a wonderful city thanks to the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the powerful strength of the Korean people closely rallied around them, he added.

S. P. Pathak, director of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea and chairman of the Indian Society for the Study of Works of Kim Jong Il, said that the reality of the DPRK proves that there is nothing impossible for it and only victory in store for it when it depends on the inexhaustible strength of the popular masses.

Self-reliance can be described as a mode of making revolution peculiar to the Korean people, he said, expressing belief that the army and people of the DPRK would make greater progress in their efforts for achieving the prosperity of the country.

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