Chairman Kim Jong Il's work "On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction", published on June 19, Juche 86 (1997), serves as an immortal banner inspiring the Korean people to the struggle for defending socialism and glorifying it with the nation-first spirit.

The work stresses that preserving the Juche character and national identity in the revolution and construction is a principled requirement for accomplishing the cause of popular masses for independence, the socialist cause, in conformity with its essential nature and socio-historical conditions. It also expounds the ideas and theories on the intrinsic feature and advantages of Korean-style socialism strong in the Juche character and national character and other issues.

Over the past 22 years after its publication, the Korean people have victoriously advanced the socialist cause by preserving the Juche character and national character in the revolution and construction more firmly under the wise guidance of the peerlessly great men.

The Chairman defended the dignity and sovereignty of the country and nation with his unique Songun politics in the acute and complicated political situation, guiding the struggle to preserve the Juche character and national character in the revolution and construction.

He further cemented the single-hearted unity of the revolutionary ranks with the Korean People's Army as the pillar and the main force of the revolution and led the work to constantly implement the Juche-oriented lines and policies of the Party in socialist construction and properly develop the peculiar and superior traditions of the Korean nation in keeping with the developing reality.

The dignity and might of the DPRK winning victory after victory under the banner of Juche is on the highest level thanks to the guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

Under his leadership, the DPRK has developed political, economic, military and all other fields on the steadfast Juche-based stand and hastened the building of a powerful socialist country, not tolerating others' way and style in the slightest.

Folk holidays, folk games and traditional dishes are encouraged and monumental edifices, national in form and socialist in content, come into being in different parts of the country. And national cultural heritages are registered as precious treasures of the country and nation.

The reality of the DPRK shows that even a country small in size and population can reliably maintain independence and achieve prosperity when it firmly preserves the Juche character and national character.