The dignity and greatness of our state and people that are ever-victorious on the strength of self-reliance are absolute as they can never be defamed by anybody and anything, the article notes, and goes on:

Our people readily opted for the path of consolidating the foundation for prosperity in the spirit of self-reliance, the worthwhile path of self-sustenance, however arduous it was.

Even in the unprecedented trials which might have brought down others in a minute, our people have kept to the path of self-reliance without the slightest vacillation, and made a new history, shouldering upon its mission and heavy responsibility for building a powerful country.

During those days of having displayed the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude, our people built great power capable of reliably guaranteeing the sovereignty of the country and well-being of all generations to come while steadily overcoming untold hardships in life.

If we had given up the principle of self-reliance, yielding to the pressure by outsiders, socialism of Juche would not have come into being and our country would have lost its name.

The brilliant history of the development of the DPRK which has made a leap forward to win miraculous victories and signal successes in succession, surpassing what others made in several centuries, is a clear manifestation of the truth and might of self-reliance.