editorial

There are several factors in developing the country and achieving its prosperity. But it is the ideology that decides how to create all of them and make them prove their real worth.

In retrospect, the Korean people have performed countless miracles and achieved continued successes overcoming trials and difficulties. Underlying all of them is the inexhaustible strength of their ideology. 

The excellent sons and daughters of the Korean people armed with the idea of sovereignty and independence defeated Japanese imperialism and liberated their country by putting up an all-nation anti-Japanese resistance though they had no support from a regular army and state backing during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

In the war the US imperialists started in the 1950s they also turned out in the resolute spirit of national defence and created the great legend of war victory as they did not want to become slaves of the invaders.

The miracle in the Chollima era, when they went ten and a hundred steps when others took one, was also created by the strength of their ideology and the source of strength, with which they overcame severe difficulties and opened up a broad avenue of socialist construction in the 1990s, was none other than the ideology.

The era of great transformations which has unfolded in the country is neither a gift presented by anyone nor a chance given by the passage of time. 

It is the precious fruit borne by the ideological and spiritual strength of the Korean people who have made every possible effort to translate the plans and will of the Workers’ Party of Korea into reality. 

Through the history and reality, they cherished the philosophy that the ideology-first principle is the banner and almighty treasured sword which have enabled the Korean revolution to advance along the road of victory. 

Today, when the sphere of socialist construction widens as never before, huge projects have been undertaken simultaneously to transform the capital and regions at the same time and this reality demands that all fields break the records.

That is why the WPK especially emphasizes the need to start all work with the ideological work.

It is aimed at further developing the extraordinary potential peculiar to the Korean revolution, which has advanced and triumphed on the strength of ideology, to the level of the new era.

There is no limitation in the strength of the ideology of the masses of the people and nothing is impossible when they give full play to it. 

Ideology is the most important resource for nation building in the DPRK.