The work, published on December 28, Juche 78 (1989), comprehensively deals with the essence and content of the Korean nation-first spirit and the tasks and ways of fully displaying it.

The work serves as a militant banner enabling the army and people of the DPRK to cherish greater pride and self-esteem as the members of Kim Il Sung's nation and to work hard for the prosperity of the country, the article says, and goes on:

The Korean nation-first spirit is an ideological and moral source that helps strengthen the single-minded unity, the mainstay of the Korean revolution.

The army and people of the DPRK have the pride and honor of living and struggling being blessed with the leaders generation after generation and herein lie the basic foundation of the Korean nation-first spirit as well as the solidity of the harmonious whole of the leader, party and masses and the might of its invincibility.

Our own way is precisely the Juche way and there is no other better way. This is the fixed faith of the Korean people.

It is their revolutionary disposition to perform steady creations and innovations by making redoubled efforts, while taking it as a shame to be left behind.

It is the national self-esteem of the army and people of the DPRK to display the staunch fighting spirit of creating things new and advanced our own way based on strong pluck that the word "impossible" is not to be found in the Korean vocabulary and by the Juche faith and will to look at the world with one's feet firmly planted on one's land.

The Korean nation-first spirit of the army and people of the DPRK is being further displayed under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.