The revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, created during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, became a tradition of the Korean people's struggle and their spirit and ushered in a new era of creating a thing out of nothing, the article says, and goes on:

Thanks to the solid foundations for the independent economy, the Korean people could successfully carry out the huge tasks for economic construction despite the harshest-ever economic blockade by the hostile forces to stamp out the country's sovereignty and rights to existence and development in recent years.

Had they yielded to the pressure by outsiders, instead of believing in their strength, and abandoned the principle of self-reliance, socialist Korea of Juche would not have emerged on this planet and its nomenclature might have disappeared along with the collapse of the world socialist system.

The history of the victorious Korean revolution clearly proves that there are neither difficulties insurmountable nor fortresses unconquerable if one has the spirit of self-reliance. Self-reliance is, indeed, the tradition of Juche Korea's struggle and the dynamics for its victorious advance.

It is the fixed will and faith of the Korean people to build a prospering powerful socialist nation by dint of self-reliance and thus bring into reality the idea of independence and happiness.