This was a historic event of decisive significance in deterring the U.S.-led imperialists' anti-socialist moves and leading the cause of socialism in the DPRK to victory by dint of the Songun (military-first) politics.

In 1993, the U.S. kicked up a row of "suspected nuclear development" in the DPRK and enforced "ad-hoc inspection" on its nuclear facilities. With the "Team Spirit" joint military rehearsal launched, it hurled a wave of nuclear offensive means and huge armed forces into the Korean Peninsula.

Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il responded such impudent moves with strong counteractions. In March 1993, he issued an order declaring a semi-war state to the whole country, all the people and the entire army, followed by the release of a DPRK government statement on withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The counteractions led the U.S. to have negotiations with the DPRK. The negotiations yielded the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and the U.S. president sent a written guarantee to Kim Jong Il for its implementation.

Later, the U.S. launched a second nuclear row against the DPRK.

Kim Jong Il clarified the DPRK's stand that it was entitled to possess more powerful weapons than nuclear bombs in order to protect its supreme interests.

The 1st Session of the 11th Supreme People's Assembly in September 2003 adopted a decision that it was the steadfast will of the DPRK to maintain and bolster nuclear deterrent.

On February 10, 2005, the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a statement declaring that the country had access to nuclear deterrent in a legal and justifiable way to defend the nation's sovereignty and security from the U.S. nuclear threat. After all, the U.S. doctrine on nuclear almighty went up in smoke.

The DPRK owes its victory in the nuclear showdown with the U.S. to Kim Jong Il's gifted stratagem, matchless courage and energetic Songun leadership.