Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The national self-respect serves as an immensely powerful mental engine in the on-going drive to adorn the triumphant campaign for a great surge with even greater victory.

It is the self-respect and pluck of the Korean people to make everything impeccable to be commensurate with a thriving nation whether they produce any light-industrial goods or build an apartment house.

They are determined to advance by leaps and bounds at a single step while others have to take a thousand steps. This national self-respect serves as an engine for creating a new speed of advance for a great surge while working miracles and performing feats every minute and second.

It is the enthusiasm based on national self-respect for the Korean people to always dynamically dash ahead to attain higher goals, looking at the world.

Rapid progress is being made in the efforts to put production processes on a modern and IT basis in all fields including metal, power and coal industries, railway transport, textile and food industries, stock-breeding, fruit farming and fish breeding. This reality clearly testifies to the strong desire of the Korean people to put the nation's overall economy on a new higher stage on the basis of the cutting-edge science and technology, concludes the article.