Sixty Years of DPRK Glorious with Independence

Sixty Years of DPRK Glorious with Independence
Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- The sixty-year course covered by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been a proud chronicle of advance and victory achieved under the banner of independence.
The DPRK owes it to the independent politics of the Workers' Party of Korea that it has been able to defend the country like an impregnable fortress and demonstrate the dignity and might of socialist Korea to the world, frustrating the maneuvers of the imperialists against it and socialism at every step.
President Kim Il Sung blazed a trail in the independent development of the Korean revolution, holding aloft the banner of Juche from the first days of his revolutionary activities. And he regarded it as the fundamental principle to establish Juche and maintain independence in the revolution and construction and wisely led the people to apply it strictly to the reality.
Under the leadership of the President, a democratic line suited to the conditions of Korea was indicated by independent judgment and decision in a complicated situation in which flunkeyism and dogmatism were prevailing after the national liberation, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a sovereign and independent state, was founded. This made the Koreans a strong and dignified people who would shape their destiny in an independent way.
The young DPRK defeated the US imperialist aggressors and defended the dignity and sovereignty of the country with credit in the 1950s.
In the 1960s when the U.S. imperialists got more blatant in their moves for aggression and interference with the incident of the armed spy ship "Pueblo" as a momentum and the modern revisionists ran into extremes in their artifices, the DPRK crushed all the challenges of history decisively and turned itself into an industrialized socialist power.
In the 1970s it set forth the strategic slogan of the revolution and construction, "Let us live our own way!" and accelerated socialist construction and, in the mid-1980s, it staunchly defended Korean style socialism in turbid floods degenerating socialism. It owes this also to the mighty weapon of independent politics.
In the 1990s when the Soviet Union and eastern European socialist countries were collapsing one after another and the imperialists and reactionaries were twanging the harp of "end of socialism", the DPRK staunchly defended political independence, holding aloft the banner of Songun, unshaken in any raging storm of opportunism and anti-socialism.
Upholding unique Songun politics, independent politics of the WPK, the Korean army and people are today vigorously accelerating the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation in the interest of the country and in keeping with its conditions, determinedly pushing aside all manner of pressure and interference of outside forces.