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Songun Politics, Manifestation of Patriotism
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The Songun politics is a manifestation of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's noble patriotism, Rodong Sinmun Tuesday says this in a signed article, stressing that it is his firm stand that the party and army exist for the country and the nation and the revolution should also serve them.

The Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea is demonstrating its great vitality as a patriotic one for the country and the nation as it reflects Kim Jong Il's noble patriotism, the article notes, and goes on:

This Songun politics is a patriotic one as it calls for increasing the capacity of the People's Army by regarding the military affairs as the most important state affairs, based on the principles of the Juche idea whose truth has been proved in the revolutionary practice, and safeguarding the country and independently carving out the destiny of the country and the nation by relying on the army.

The sovereignty of the nation cannot be realized by words only under the current situation. It can be realized and guaranteed only by the arms of justice.

The confrontation with the U.S. imperialists keen on aggression is precisely the confrontation of strength.

Had the DPRK not had access to the self-defensive war deterrent pursuant to the Songun politics, a nuclear war would have already broken out on the Korean Peninsula.

The WPK's Songun politics serves as a patriotic politics defending the common desire and interests of the nation.

The Songun politics is instilling the strong national character and patriotic spirit into all the Korean people. It is a politics of great magnanimity of embracing all the people willing to make contribution to the national reunification without discrimination irrespective of ideology, system, political view and religious belief. This politics also represents the immutable trust to go along the road of the reunification to the last with those whom one joined hands with. What the WPK aims by holding aloft the banner of Songun is to build a reunified thriving nation on this land, the article concludes.

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