Rodong Sinmun Sunday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

Many countries have their satellites but they put them into orbit in various ways.

The DPRK succeeded in launching the satellite entirely with its own technology and by its own efforts. This serves as a clear example for the countries and nations desirous of independence to follow in developing outer space.

It has become a world trend to study and develop space. If a country fails to pay attention to this trend and neglects space development based on the cutting-edge science and technology, it will find itself controlled and subjugated by the imperialists scientifically and technologically and will be dependent on them in the end.

When the DPRK released a report on the projected satellite launch, the imperialists and their followers left no stone unturned to hold the DPRK's plan in check.

They made so much fuss about the projected satellite launch because its successful launch means a victory of sovereign DPRK in the standoff with the forces hostile to it.

The DPRK succeeded in launching the satellite by its own efforts and technology at one go but the U.S. and Japan have the precedents of failures.

Their desperate efforts can be explained by the fact that the DPRK's successful satellite launch might remind the world of their setbacks in the past and offer an opportunity of declaring before it their defeat in the political and scientific and technological confrontation with the DPRK.

The DPRK's successful satellite launch, its victory, have inspired the world progressive people and exerted great influence on the world political structure and the development of the situation.

The DPRK's satellite Kwangmyongsong-2, a satellite of independence, satellite of victory, will fully demonstrate the dignity and might of Songun Korea throughout our planet, turning round the earth in its orbit non-stop to creditably perform its mission.