Today science and technology has become factor of orienting the future of country and nation, the article says, adding:

Basing itself on the deep penetration into the needs of the times and the developing revolution, the Workers' Party of Korea has long regarded it as one of the three pillars for building a thriving country to attach importance to science and technology as well as to ideology and military affairs. Under its wise leadership a solid foundation for building a thriving nation was laid and a wide avenue for national prosperity opened despite manifold ordeals and trials.

The WPK puts forward science and technology as the main link for building a great prosperous and powerful country in the ongoing drive for great surge. It is the Party's determination to put the nation's science and technology on the cutting-edge level in conformity with the trend of the developing reality and thereby increase the political and military might and the state economic power of the DPRK and provide its people with more abundant and civilized life.

Thanks to the successful embodiment of the WPK's line of giving importance to science and technology, the DPRK emerged a state producing and launching any satellite, complex of latest science and technology and its national strength was further increased. The indomitable mental power of the Korean people with fixed will and patriotic zeal to glorify the WPK and Kim Il Sung's Korea by dint of science and technology serves as the inexhaustible motive force for increasing the national power.

To develop science and technology is an important guarantee for adhering to the principle of self-reliance in building a thriving socialist nation. It is also an important work for foiling the imperialists' sanctions and blockade.