Only when a country has its own strength, can it build itself in line with its own line and strategy and develop everything as it pleases, the article says, and goes on:

It is necessary to build strength to defend the country and usher in an era of national prosperity in all fields, political, military, economic and cultural.

Independence is, needless to say, dearest to the country and the nation.

It is the dearest patriotism to protect independence while building the strength to guarantee it amounts to the most ardent patriotism.

It is of greater importance to work for the future of the country to build one's own strength. It is the most ardent patriotism to build strength to make one's country prosper and develop forever.

The course of building national power by the concerted efforts of the nation means the course of giving full play to the mental power of the nation. Nothing is surer guarantee than the might of self-reliance in bringing earlier a final victory and a bright future.

Those descendants of the nation who failed to build their own strength in the world where the imperialists' law of jungle is rampant are fated to be members of a stateless nation.

It is the lesson taught by history that it is necessary for any country and nation to firmly build their own strength as long as there is imperialism.

Those people who have firmly built their strength can have firm trust in the eternal rosy future of their countries.

It is thanks to the powerful national power that the army and people of the DPRK are dynamically advancing, full of confidence of victory in the drive for the building of a thriving nation.

The gains won by dint of self-reliance precisely mean such weight of the national power of Songun Korea.