Pyongyang, September 23 (KCNA) -- The people of each country are the master of its natural resources and it is, therefore, an inviolable sovereign right for them to actively harness and use them in its interests. Nature-remaking is very vast and tough job and it is, therefore, accompanied by a struggle against the imperialists.

Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in a bylined article.

It continues:

The imperialists are working hard to disturb the nature-harnessing projects in other countries.

Their persistent and heinous moves find expression in the fact that they slap various economic sanctions on other countries in a bid to bar them from effecting South-South cooperation and international cooperation in the field of nature-remaking.

People's struggle for nature-harnessing can never make smooth progress as long as the imperialists remain in the world. Nature-remaking work precisely means a struggle against imperialism.

The world progressive people should intensify the anti-imperialist struggle, clearly mindful that a struggle for remaking nature is bound to be accompanied by an anti-imperialist struggle.

What the world people desire is independence, not domination and subjugation, and friendship and cooperation, not confrontation.

It is hard to properly harness nature without having strong military capability. It is all the more so as the imperialists seek to plunder other countries of their natural resources by force of arms. Only when a country possesses powerful forces for self-defense, can it beat back any aggression and war maneuvers of the imperialists and dynamically push forward any nature-harnessing project.

The imperialists are sadly mistaken if they calculate they can frighten and stifle other countries and bring them to their knees through such obstructions to their nature-remaking projects.