In this regard, Associate Professor Ri Ho of Kim Il Sung University told KCNA:

During the last three years, the U.S.-led hostile forces, seized with inveterate repugnancy toward the DPRK, have intensified the moves to politically isolate the DPRK, hardened economic sanctions and blockades and committed unheard-of military provocations against it.

The DPRK answered with its successful H-bomb test to their moves to prevent it from getting access to nukes and with construction of world-level edifices to their economic sanctions.

UPI said that the West cried for pressure on the DPRK over its H-bomb test, but the number of tourists to the Masikryong Ski Resort in the DPRK, built under the deep care of supreme leader Kim Jong Un, has increased by far than the previous year, a proof that sanctions against the DPRK produce no desired effect.

Joseph Dethomas, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of State who is professor on international affairs of Pennsylvania University, said in an article that the "sanctions" against the DPRK is little short of hammering in vain. The U.S., south Korea and Japan switched over to the policy of additional sanctions to force the DPRK to scrap its nuclear and missile programs but they had better desist from expecting any results as it is unrealistic, the article added.

The three-year-long history clearly showed that the strategic line chosen by Songun (military-first) Korea is the way to self-reliance and self-development and sure victory, not the way to "isolation" and "collapse" loudmouthed by the hostile forces.

They should be mindful that their anti-DPRK moves will end in smoke since the DPRK adheres to this line.