Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The above-said class awareness was fully displayed in exerting utmost efforts for bolstering up the defense capability true to the Songun leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea. It also found a striking manifestation in that the Korean people have firmly preserved the true nature of socialism, determined to share the destiny with socialism to the last and that they are making an uninterrupted leap forward and bringing about continued innovations in building a thriving nation through a high-pitched drive for effecting a great surge in the spirit of self-reliance.

The whole country is now giving priority to the work to render unreserved assistance to the People's Army and all the fields and units are waging a dynamic drive for bolstering up the nation's defence capability in every way. This reality clearly proves the determination and will of the Korean people to bring about a great event of national reunification with the might of Songun at any cost.

They live full of revolutionary spirit and optimism, abiding by the principle of socialism even when carrying out economic construction and vehemently rejecting the corrupt bourgeois way of life and the ideological and cultural poisoning of the imperialists.

They are intensifying their drive for a great surge in the spirit of self-reliance with the revolutionary zeal to build a reunified and prosperous thriving nation at all costs on this land by their own efforts and their own way with pride.

They are fully demonstrating the spirit of heroic Korea, Chollima Korea, consolidating as firm as a rock the foundation of the Juche-based industry and building world-startling gigantic structures with faith in sure victory and courage that he who laughs last laughs longest no matter how reckless the enemies may become in their moves.