calendar>>September 5. 2018 Juche 107

We Will Proudly Build Economic Power for Ourselves: Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- It is the fixed will and determination of the Korean people to build a powerful socialist country to be envied by the whole world on this land without fail in the spirit of self-reliance and self-development and by dint of science and technology, says Rodong Sinmun in a commentary Wednesday.

We did not have an idea of building economy with others' help, the commentary notes, adding:

We have done all by ourselves on the principle of self-reliance and self-sufficiency to perform world-startling miracles.

The credit for this is just the single-minded unity of all the service personnel and people and the great spirit of self-reliance and self-development and science and technology.

The entire army and all the people have struggled in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude, more closely united behind the leader to win victory without any deviation in the face of the sustained vicious sanctions of hostile forces against the DPRK and despite severe ordeals.

Self-reliance and self-development and science and technology are the life and soul of socialist Korea and the driving force of the leap forward and this is the only road we should take. It is the precious truth proved by the army and people of the DPRK in practice.