Rodong Sinmun Monday says in an editorial article that this is a noteworthy event in which Kim Jong Un declared at home and abroad the iron will of the WPK and the people to achieve the great cause of the building of a powerful country by giving fuller play to the spirit of national independence and national self-respect which has been fully displayed since the early period of the Korean revolution.

Independence is the only way to realize our great aspiration to build the most powerful country, the people's ideal society, the editorial article points out, and goes on:

Independence gave birth to modern Korea and it is the bloodline and lifeline that has dynamically advanced it along the road of prosperity.

President Kim Il Sung's and Chairman Kim Jong Il's history of leading the building of a prosperous country is, in essence, the one of national independence and national self-respect.

The validity and vitality of the independent line have been more clearly proved in the grand march of the new century of Juche.

Our Party has vigorously pushed ahead with socialist construction from the firm standpoint that revolution is the struggle for realizing the independence of the popular masses, and carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche is, in essence, the inheritance of independent faith, independent politics.

The days when Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has led our revolution are the brilliant period in which a model of independent politics for the times has been created.

The WPK's absolute authority, socialist Korea's prestige and our people's dignity fully demonstrated before the world are the brilliant fruitions of Kim Jong Un's experienced and seasoned politics of independence.

A new chapter of the era of the Worker's Party in which development and prosperity are achieved with our own efforts has been opened up, and this constitutes the undying patriotic exploit of Kim Jong Un.

It is the unanimous will of our people to win earlier the victory in building a powerful socialist country by thoroughly implementing the independent line of the WPK.

The article stresses that a series of eye-opening events and victories which can be hardly estimated with existing political conception and economic figures are in store for Juche Korea, the country of strong independence.