Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a bylined article.

The criteria of a power lies not in the size of territory and population, military hardware and economic potential, the article notes, and goes on:

Any big country that challenges peace and conscience of mankind and acts under the baton of others can never be a power recognized by the world progressives, no matter what strong military and economic potentials it has.

In a word, a power means a country with strong national capability and its main criteria is politics and ideology.

The DPRK is a socialist power of Juche defending its sovereignty and achieving the prosperity of the nation with its own capability.

The DPRK is not a country which refrains from saying what it wishes to utter and doing what it wants to do while reading other's face.

Being strong in its independent faith, the DPRK successfully launched a Juche-based working satellite and succeeded in its third underground nuclear test.

It is a single-minded power in which the leader, party, army and people are close united organizationally and ideologically and in the sense of moral obligation.

The army and people of the DPRK will surely emerge victorious in their final decisive battle to protect the sovereignty of the nation as President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, symbols of the great Paektusan nation, wish them rosy future and the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Il is leading the Korean revolution, the article concludes.