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The Workers’ Party of Korea victoriously greeted its Ninth Congress and the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK by overcoming all sorts of trials and difficulties with its own efforts, holding fast to the revolutionary line of independence after 2019 when the First Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK was held.

As to this, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un proudly said at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on March 23: “The past decade clearly showed that no objective conditions and circumstances can ever check the advance of a state and people that have turned out in the struggle to shape their future, rallied as one with a firm faith, and that the most correct road to prosperity is to achieve self-reliance and self-sufficiency.”

2019, seven years ago, was a period that demanded a truly important and responsible choice and fresh courage on the part of socialist construction and the DPRK government. 

At the time the hostile forces intensified their moves to contain, weaken and stifle the DPRK and the contradictions and confrontation for hegemony between big powers were further aggravated on the regional and worldwide scale.

In such a situation, the respected General Secretary, in his policy speech “On Socialist Construction and the Internal and External Policies of the Government of the Republic at the Present Stage” delivered at the First Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly, clarified the issues of thoroughly implementing the revolutionary line of independence in state building and activities, consistently applying the people-first principle to state activities and social life as a whole, adhering to the line of building an independent national economy and displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance to the full, putting the national economy on a Juche, modern, IT and scientific basis, solving the shortage of food and consumer goods in the earliest possible time, pushing ahead with grand construction projects for providing the people with better and more civilized living conditions and other strategies for nation building.

The nation-building strategies were detailed and expanded at the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee and the sessions of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly, which were held later.

Accordingly, the WPK steadily implemented the political line and the national development strategy based on self-reliance by firmly believing in the people and preserving its fighting traditions in the face of the manifold difficulties and painful ordeals, thereby achieving proud successes in succession.

The national defence capabilities were steadily expanded and strengthened, and the economic fields successfully carried out the long-range development plans for the first time in decades and laid the foundations for the growth of production.

The regional development policy for improving the material and cultural life of the regional people was vigorously enforced, with the result that modern regional-industry factories were built in 40 cities and counties in two years to promote regional development. In the capital city of Pyongyang the construction project for 50 000 flats was forged ahead to solve the housing problem of the citizens. As a result, houses for nearly 60 000 families were built to witness the happy events of moving into new houses in some years.

Changes took place in the work attitude of the agricultural workers to produce high yields with scientific farming in accordance with the rural revolution programme in the new era, a new history of irrigation started to ease the water shortage in farming and the mechanization of agriculture was pressed on vigorously to contribute greatly to the growth of grain production.

The construction of farmhouses was undertaken on a large scale, with the result that modern houses for over 113 000 families were built in 1 860-odd rural villages at some 500 farms across the country and the agricultural workers celebrated the happy events of moving into new houses in all four seasons in the past four years.

The Korean people also achieved a great deal in terms of spirit, ability and materials by dint of self-reliance in the past seven years, including the successful launch of the overall technical reconstruction and a step forward made in science and technology, education and public health.

Therefore, the respected General Secretary said in his policy speech at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly: “As we were consistent in maintaining the principles and methods of dealing with problems that rely entirely on our own strength in the face of ordeals, we could remain more faithful to our sacred struggle with the sense of self-confidence, not the sense of dependence, and win great gains incomparable with the result expected from anyone’s ‘promise’ or ‘economic assistance.’

“Though we felt difficult at every step and were short of everything, we were firm in our conviction that we have nothing to rely on other than our own strength and were full of confidence in our own strength; as a result, we could unyieldingly and to the utmost do more things we wanted for the prosperity and development of the state and the well-being of the people while rapidly increasing our own potentials, and, furthermore, advance these undertakings in breadth and depth beyond precedents and beyond the imagination of the world.”

The victory of self-reliance, it is the brilliant success the DPRK achieved in the past seven years.