A new strategic line was advanced at the March, 2013 plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the paper said, and went on:

The DPRK's decision was the most just and wise option.

Its new strategic line is the most realistic one suited to the specific conditions of the DPRK as it aims to build a thriving socialist nation.

The Korean people suffered many obstacles and difficulties in economic construction in the past.

It was because it had to divert huge human and material wealth to bolstering up its military muscle, though it should have served economic development and improvement of the people's living standard, owing to the ceaseless sanctions, pressure and threat of aggression by the U.S. and other hostile forces.

Given that the DPRK has had access to a powerful nuclear deterrence for self-defense, its people now have become possible to accelerate the building of an economic power at will under safer circumstances.

Gone are the times never to return when the U.S. threatened the DPRK with nukes and put a brake on its economic construction.

The Korean people regard the country's sovereignty and dignity dearer than their lives and staunchly fight for them at the cost of their lives.

The world will clearly see the DPRK successfully building a thriving socialist nation, mercilessly smashing the imperialists and their followers' threat of a war by dint of the powerful nuclear deterrent.