To successfully finish the rice transplantation campaign is a do-or-die struggle to foil the U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces' stringent sanctions and blockade, says Rodong Sinmun, adding:

The dignity of a socialist power and the people's highly civilized and happy life are unthinkable without self-sufficiency in food.

Rice means socialism and bumper grain harvest is like another nuclear bomb which deals a heavy blow at the enemies.

When we have enough grain, we have nothing to fear and can continue to push ahead with the building of a powerful socialist country by dint of self-reliance and self-development.

Minju Joson says that when the DPRK, a nuclear power and military power in the East, produces enough grain, there will be nothing to fear though the hostile forces make desperate efforts to stifle it and we will build a socialist economic power without ease.