editorial

The desire and aspirations of mankind to follow the road of independent development and prosperity in a peaceful and stable environment free from aggression and interference are being faced with a grave challenge.

Due to the US’ aggressive moves to realize its wild ambition for world domination, the foundation of peace and security is seriously shaken and armed conflicts occur one after another in different parts of the world, pushing the current international situation to a more confusing direction.

Existence and development are possible in any conditions if a nation is powerful, but it falls victim to sanctions and aggression if it is weak. This is the bitter lesson taught by history and grim reality of today.

After the Second World War, the US launched many wars, big and small, to maintain hegemony, including the Korean war, the Vietnam war and those in Panama and Kosovo.

For the world supremacy, the US put into operation a huge munitions industry and formed an extensive network of military bases throughout the planet. From 1945, it built hundreds of them in over 80 countries and regions and deployed lots of forces and military equipment for attack across the world, such as aircraft carrier, stealth fighter and strategic nuclear submarine. It also reinforces its troops in the Asia-Pacific region and rallies its vassal forces to pose military threats to the regional countries.

It continues to make enemies intentionally while encroaching upon the security interests of sovereign states by relying on its many overseas military bases and makes much ado about "threats" from them to create the danger of confrontation.

In the present world where different forces violently crash into one another and victory or defeat is decided by strength, a country with feeble military strength becomes the weak and a target of aggression and plunder by the hegemony-seeking forces.

The Gulf War in 1991, air raid on Yugoslavia by the US and NATO in 1999, the Afghan war in 2001, the Iraqi war in 2003, the collapse of the Gaddafi government of Libya by the military intervention of the West in 2011, the Gaza crisis in 2023 and many other tragedies of bloodshed caused by the United States and its vassal forces clearly show that it is impossible to defend the sovereignty and the right to existence of countries and nations and the regional peace if they do not have powerful capabilities for self-defence.

One’s own defence capability provides a fundamental guarantee for preserving peace.

Only when they build up their own strength and fight against the hegemony seekers, can the countries and nations defend their sovereignty and dignity and achieve economic prosperity.

The DPRK set it as the fundamental requirement for building an independent sovereign state to possess an invincible military capability and put primary efforts into it from the beginning of building a new society.

Even in the hard time when the US moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK reached the extremes, the latter invariably followed the road of bolstering up its military muscle and in the course of this, its revolutionary armed forces turned into a strongest entity with absolute strength great enough to completely control and defeat the tyranny of the hostile forces and reliably guarantee the development and prosperity of the country while demonstrating its tremendous might.

To cope with the growing military hostilities of the US, the DPRK legalized the state nuclear forces policy in order to safeguard its national sovereignty, territorial integrity and fundamental interests, prevent war on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia and ensure the strategic stability of the world. Its powerful nuclear deterrent for self-defence serves as the one and only guarantee for properly keeping the balance of power on the peninsula, reliably defending the regional peace and security and preventing the recurrence of war.

It is attributable to the powerful military capabilities for self-defence of the DPRK that no war has broken out and peace has been preserved over the past several decades on the Korean peninsula, where the interests of big powers are intertwined and which is located in a geopolitically important place.

If it had neglected military affairs and failed to build the greatest military power, it would have been unable to defend its sovereignty and the destiny of the people and imagine a peaceful environment and economic construction.

Peace should be kept by one’s own power.