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If a country and a nation are to protect their sovereignty and the right to existence they should bolster up the defence capability. Without one's own strength, strong military muscle for self-defence it is impossible to win in the fight against imperialism nor is it possible to defend the country and the nation and the security of its people.

The policy of the DPRK on national defence is a policy on self-defence from A to Z.

The national defence forces of the DPRK, the forces for self-defence, have the mission to protect the country and socialism and the security of its people and their lives and properties.

The right to self-defence is the life and soul of the DPRK and Korean-style socialism is the life and soul of the Korean people. It is the steadfast will of the Korean people to defend and advance Korean-style socialism and to do so is the exercise of the right to self-determination of the Korean nation and the right to choice recognized by the United Nations.

The only way for the DPRK is to bolster up the nation's defence capability by its own efforts.

Songun serves as a banner for the DPRK having a long-standing tradition to win sure victories.

The Songun politics of the DPRK serves as an ever-victorious banner for the country and the revolution and an all-powerful treasured sword for the revolution and construction as it is based on the Juche idea and comprehensively embodies and consummates the Juche-oriented revolutionary principles, strategies and tactics, Juche-based leadership methods and art.

The DPRK is proud of having averted a war on the Korean Peninsula up to this date by firmly protecting the sovereignty of the country and socialism from the imperialists' desperate moves to isolate and stifle it.

The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will creditably discharge their mission and role in preventing a war and defending the sovereignty and peace of the country.