The moves of hostile forces against the DPRK were the most brutal ones unprecedented in history. However, the DPRK became a nuclear power of Juche and world military power which no formidable enemy dares provoke and achieved a series of successes in the building of a powerful socialist country last year.

The U.S. and its vassal forces are now making last-ditch efforts to deprive the DPRK of its sovereignty and rights to existence and development.

The U.S. imperialists run amuck in the barbarous sanctions and blockade against the DPRK by dint of all economic and diplomatic means, unprecedentedly increasing the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula by massively deploying the nuclear strategic assets in and around the peninsula.

The enemies' sanctions will never work on the DPRK as it has the foundation of self-supporting national economy and a huge army of reliable scientists who are fully supporting the policies of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and devotedly working to implement them.

Victory and glory are in store for Juche Korea and its future is rosy thanks to the wise guidance of the WPK and the single-hearted unity of all the service personnel and people united close around it.