Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The imperialists and their followers are persistently barring all other countries and nations from exercising their legitimate rights and working hard to make sure that only their hegemonic and unilateral high-handed and arbitrary practices are workable in the international arena.

This is evidenced by the fact that the United States recently forced the UN Security Council to adopt what it called the "presidential statement" over the DPRK's launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 for peaceful purposes in a bid to increase the pressure upon it.

Many countries and nations of the world are further intensifying than ever before their activities to exercise their sovereign rights, opposed to the imperialists' policies for domination and hegemony.

For every country and nation to exercise their legitimate sovereign rights is prerequisite to accomplishing the cause of global independence.

The great Songun politics now in force in the DPRK serves as a powerful treasured sword for dealing telling blows at the imperialists and their followers and an invincible banner encouraging progressive mankind.

If every country and nation is to exercise their sovereign rights, they should bolster up their military power for self -defence. The military muscle for self-defence provides a sure guarantee for the exercise of sovereign right.

If a country lacks the principle of independence, firm faith and will and grit in the present complicated world where the imperialist forces' counter-revolutionary offensive is getting more undisguised than ever before, it can neither maintain its revolutionary stand and principle nor fully exercise its sovereign right.

The Korean people will continue fully exercising their sovereign rights, holding high the banner of Songun in the future, too, concludes the article.