The bulletin said that the 70 year-long history of the DPRK is a history of independence.

President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Republic, fathered the Juche idea and opened up a new era of development in human history, an era of independence, said the bulletin.

Stressing that the formidable military muscle, a reliable guarantee of the DPRK's prestige and honor, would have been unthinkable without the military line of self-reliant defence advanced by the President, it went on:

Independence the President had cherished and applied all his life was HE Kim Jong Il's faith, mode and practice of revolution.

The ever-victorious history of the DPRK, which has proudly advanced under the unfurled banner of independence, is given steady continuity thanks to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, another outstanding great man.

The miracles being ceaselessly created in the DPRK stunning the world are a precious fruition of the independent revolutionary line of the Workers' Party of Korea and a stirring signal of its victory.

As it is guided by Kim Jong Un who demonstrates the country's prestige and spirit to the whole world, holding higher the banner of independence, the DPRK will shine more brilliantly as a fortress of independence, an invincible power.