Noting the slogan reflects the resolute working spirit to carve out one's destiny with recourse to one's own strength, technology and resources, the article goes on:

The Korean people, giving the fullest play to their mental power of national self-existence and single-minded unity under this slogan, opened up a heyday in the era of the Workers' Party, turned the arduous march into the one for building a land of bliss and brought about a series of epochal events of great significance in the history of the nation. If they fail to have the spirit of self-reliance, the great Mallima era when everything changes rapidly and the dignity of the DPRK standing in the center of the world politics are unthinkable.

In recent years the Korean people successfully concluded the 70-day campaign and 200-day campaign, which were followed by a continuous offensive. They thus gained the strongest national defence muscle and made a big stride in attaining the goals of the 5-year strategy for national economic development. All these world-startling victories and successes are ascribable to the Korean people's patriotic devotion and revolutionary spirit of self-reliance.

The Korean people will pave a broad avenue toward the country's prosperity in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the uplifted slogan "Let us live our own way!"