KIM JONG UN
Report
to the March 2013 Plenary Meeting
of the Central Committee of the Workers’
Party of Korea
March
31, Juche 102 (2013)
Comrades,
Today we are holding a plenary
meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. At this
meeting we will discuss and adopt an important strategic line for bringing
closer the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered on Mt. Paektu
as required by the prevailing situation and the developing revolution.
Under the wise leadership of
the great President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, our revolution has
travelled the glorious road of victory by bravely overcoming the worst
difficulties and challenges in the protracted and severe struggle against the
allied imperialist forces.
The enemy, frightened by the
soaring mettle of our service personnel and other people who are charging
forward full of confidence for final victory under the Party’s leadership, have
enlisted all their political, economic and military forces to isolate and
stifle our Republic; as a consequence, the situation in our country has reached
such a grave level as that in a country on the brink of war.
Today we are faced with the
important task to achieve the decisive victory in the all-out showdown with the
United States
for smashing its daily increasing schemes to stifle our Republic and to develop
the Juche-based socialist country into a powerful Paektusan nation which no one
in the world would dare provoke for ever.
Proceeding from the
requirements of the prevailing situation and the developing revolution, the
Central Committee of the Party puts forth the new strategic line of
simultaneously carrying on the construction of the economy and upbuilding of
the nuclear forces.
This line is a strategic line
for directing greater efforts to economic construction while consolidating the
country’s defence capabilities by developing the nuclear forces which the great
General bequeathed to us, thus building a thriving country in which our people
would enjoy all the benefits of socialism.
Carrying on the construction of
the economy and upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously is an
indispensable requirement of the prevailing situation.
We intended to concentrate our
efforts on economic construction by relying on the self-defensive war
deterrents which the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il had
created all their lives, so that the people would not tighten their belts any
longer but enjoy the benefits of socialism. However, a great obstacle has been
created in front of us.
The United States and its vassal
forces, picking a quarrel with our successful launch in last December of a
peaceful man-made satellite, railroaded a brigandish “resolution on sanctions”
through at the UN Security Council. It was a hostile, outrageous act that
illegalizes the legimate right of a sovereign state to launch a satellite.
To cope with this situation and
as a link in the whole chain of substantial countermeasures to defend the
country’s sovereignty and security, we were compelled to conduct the third
underground nuclear test of a self-defensive nature.
The hostile forces, including
the United States,
grew crazier and adopted another “sanctions resolution,” which is harsher than
the previous one. In the meantime, they have staged joint military exercises
Key Resolve and Foal Eagle by enlisting vast aggressive forces to ignite a
nuclear war.
Rallied solidly behind the
Central Committee of the Party, our service personnel and other people have
turned out as one in the anti-US, all-out showdown to respond to the enemy’s
aggressive war with a righteous war for national reunification. Frightened by
our harder line, the enemy dare not lash out at random, but have not given up
their wild dream to stifle our Republic.
Our peaceful efforts for the
economic construction and the improvement of the people’s standard of living
are but to be accompanied by an acute struggle against the enemy, and the US schemes to
stifle our Republic by means of sanctions and pressure and thus pull down our
nuclear deterrents and our socialist system will persist for long.
The United States is most afraid of our
nuclear deterrents, which are small-sized, light and diversified, and is making
last-ditch efforts as they think that if we, possessed of nuclear weapons,
achieve economic prosperity, its hostile policy towards the DPRK will come to
naught.
That the hostile policy the United States
pursues against the DPRK is getting more vicious in recent years is also
related with the fact that it has moved the strategic centre for its hegemony
in the world to the Asia-Pacific region and designated our country as the
primary target of its attack.
Proceeding from this, the United States
is artificially aggravating the tension, picking a quarrel with our launch of a
peaceful satellite without any good reason, and taking this as an excuse, is
conducting large-scale joint war exercises one after another by mobilizing
enormous aggressive forces. It is intent on dismantling our nuclear armaments
and overthrowing our system by all means and methods.
The tragic events that have
taken place in several countries in recent years show that if the strength of a
country is weak, it cannot defend its sovereignty and the dignity of its nation
nor achieve the happiness and prosperity of its people.
We must never forget the lessons
of the countries in the Balkan Peninsula and the Middle
East which failed to possess powerful self-defensive capabilities,
looking to big countries, or gave up even their existing war deterrents under
the pressure and appeasement of the imperialists, ending up becoming victims of
aggression.
The enemy are now blackmailing
us, saying that we cannot achieve economic development unless we give up our
nuclear weapons; at the same time, they are appeasing us, saying that if we
choose another road, they would help us to be well-off.
The more they do so, the more
firmly we must hold the treasured sword of nuclear weapons and the more widely
we should open the gate to prosperity.
To carry on the economic
construction and upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously at present is
the law-governed requirement of our developing revolution.
The cause of Songun revolution
associated with the ennobling lives of the great Generalissimos has today
greeted a new, historic turning-point.
We must consolidate the strength
of Songun to the maximum and, by relying on it, build without fail a strongest
country in the world, a people’s paradise, in which all the people live happily
with nothing to envy in the world. Unshakable is our Party’s determination to
enable our people, who have invariably followed it overcoming various
hardships, to enjoy the happiest and most affluent life in the world on the
strength of Songun.
The effort to develop the
economy and improve the people’s standard of living can be successful only when
it is backed by powerful military capabilities, nuclear forces. In the spirit
with which we conquered outer space and with the mettle with which we succeeded
in the nuclear test of a high level, we must push ahead simultaneously with the
campaign to defend the country and the construction of an economic giant, and
thus achieve the happiness of the people and the prosperity of the powerful
Paektusan nation without fail.
Carrying on the economic
construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces simultaneously is an
urgent requirement for categorically rejecting the domination and intervention
of foreign forces and accelerating the historic cause of national
reunification, the supreme desire of our nation. The nuclear weapons we are
possessed of are a precious asset of the entire nation which will guarantee for
ever the prosperity of a reunified country.
The strategic line of
simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the
nuclear forces is a righteous line that will make it possible to brilliantly
implement the cause of building a thriving socialist country by remarkably
consolidating our war deterrents and putting spurs to the economic
construction.
Our nuclear forces are reliable
war deterrents and a guarantee for the defending of the sovereignty of the
nation. For nearly 70 years after the appearance of the nuclear weapons, the
worldwide Cold War lasted for long and many wars, large and small, have been
fought in various regions, but it was only the nuclear states that have not
experienced military aggression.
If a country is fully capable
of dealing precise blows with nuclear weapons at aggressors and their bases
wherever they may be on the earth, no aggressors will dare attack it; the more
enormous and stronger its power of nuclear strike, the greater its
effectiveness of deterring war. In particular, since our country is confronted
with the United States
which possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world and the
latter constantly threatens us with nuclear weapons, we must beef up our
nuclear forces both in quantity and in quality. Peace, prosperity and people’s
happy life all rest with powerful nuclear forces.
The strategic line of
simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the
nuclear forces is a realistic one which will bring about the maximum effect in
the economic development and defence upbuilding in keeping with our actual
conditions.
The United States and its vassal forces
are now scheming to hamper our effort to build an economic giant and improve
the people’s standard of living by dragging us into arms race. The new line
will enable us to further strengthen our defence capabilities at small expense
without increasing military expenditure and direct great efforts to the
economic construction and the improving of the people’s standard of living.
We have strong atomic energy
industry which the great Generalissimos established with keen foresight,
outstanding leadership and iron courage and also inexhaustible uranium
resources.
The Party’s line of
simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and the upbuilding of the
nuclear forces is a reasonable line which will enable us to ease the strain on
electric power supply at the same time as strengthening the nuclear forces on
the basis of the Juche-based atomic energy industry; it is also a just line
which will make it possible to satisfactorily realize our Party’s plan and
intention to enable the people to live a happy life free from any worry while
coping with the prevailing situation on our own initiative.
This strategic line is a
succession and development of the line of simultaneously carrying on the
economic construction and defence upbuilding that was set forth by President
Kim Il Sung and applied by General Kim Jong Il thoroughly.
At the Fifth Plenary Meeting of
the Fourth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in December
1962 Comrade Kim Il Sung advanced the line of simultaneously developing the
economy and national defence capabilities, the first of its kind in history,
and set forth the revolutionary slogan, “Rifle in one hand and hammer or sickle
in the other!” As he advanced this line and created both the self-supporting
national economy and the self-reliant national defence capabilities, we were
able to firmly safeguard the gains of the revolution unperturbed in the
upheavals in which socialism collapsed in several countries.
While leading the fierce
anti-US nuclear showdown along the road of victory by dint of his distinguished
Songun politics, General Kim Jong Il achieved the great cause of possessing
nuclear weapons, thus defending Juche-based socialism and providing a strong
springboard for building a thriving country.
We are now doing anything we
are determined to do in accordance with our faith, will and mettle while
resolutely frustrating the vicious moves of the United States and its vassal forces
to isolate and stifle the DPRK. We owe this to the powerful nuclear deterrents,
to the creation of which the great Generalissimos devoted all their lives. The
exploits of the Generalissimos who made our country a dignified nuclear state
in the world will shine for ever in the history of our nation.
The Party’s line of stepping up
the building of an economic giant while consolidating the defence capabilities
of the country with the nuclear forces as the backbone is a treasured sword for
hastening the building of a thriving socialist country and national
reunification, and it is a banner for our country to firmly defend the
sovereignty and dignity of our nation for generation after generation.
The strategic line reflects our
Party’s unshakable faith and will to carry the revolutionary cause of Juche
through to completion along the road of independence, the road of Songun and
the road of socialism, which the President pioneered and the General continued
to follow.
We must thoroughly implement
the Party’s line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and
the upbuilding of the nuclear forces as we hold fast to the line.
To step up the building of an
economic giant and drastically improve the people’s standard of living is the
most important and urgent task facing our Party at present.
It was the General’s lifelong
wish to build his beloved country into an economic giant and thus make the
people live happily without anything to envy in the world. We must step up the
building of an economic giant and improve the people’s standard of living at an
early date as was intended by the General.
The success or failure in the
effort to build an economic giant depends, first of all, on how we shore up the
vanguard sectors and basic industry sectors of the national economy. When
power, coal-mining and metallurgical industries and railway transport
dynamically advance in the vanguard, the overall national economy can be
revitalized and progress full of vigour. The vanguard sectors and basic
industry sectors of the national economy should make breakthroughs for victory
in the current grand onward march as befits the trailblazers and pioneers in
the building of an economic giant.
We must bring about a fresh
turn in the development of agriculture and light industry which are the main
thrust areas in the building of an economic giant.
It is necessary to fulfil
without fail the grain production plan advanced by the Party by increasing
state investment in agriculture and doing farming scientifically and
technically as required by the Juche farming method.
In hearty response to the
Party’s call for making big strides in the grand onward march for improving the
people’s standard of living, the light industry sector must run light industry
factories at full capacity and mass-produce quality consumer goods favoured by
the people.
By stoking up the flames of the
industrial revolution in the new century, we must further raise the level of
modernization and scientification of the national economy and definitely turn
ours into a knowledge-based economy.
In the present era, when the
height and speed of the economic and social development are determined by the
development of science and technology, the economic giant we are building must
be a knowledge-based one whose driving force is science and technology.
Great efforts must be
channelled into locally obtaining the fuel and raw and other materials urgently
needed in the building of an economic giant by relying on our resources and
technology and particularly into putting the key industry sectors, including
metallurgical and chemical industries, on a Juche-oriented footing.
By building up forces for developing
new technologies and combining the economy organically with science and
technology, all sectors of the national economy must equip factories and
enterprises with modern technology.
And we must direct efforts to
the development of space science and technology so as to develop and launch a
greater number of communications satellite and various other kinds of
application satellites.
In order to bring about a turn
in the building of an economic giant, we must improve economic guidance and
management.
State economic organs,
including the Cabinet, must work out economic development strategy and set
realistic objectives by sectors and stages in a substantial manner and
thoroughly carry them out. They must also scrupulously organize and direct
production so as to increase production by making the most of the already-built
economic foundations.
We must study and perfect our
style of economic management method as demanded by the developing reality.
The method, which embodies in
it the Juche idea, must keep to the socialist ownership of the means of
production and ensure that all enterprises conduct business activities
independently and creatively under the unified leadership of the state. It must
be a socialist method that encourages the producer masses to fulfil their
responsibilities and roles as masters in the production and management.
We must expand and diversify
foreign trade, thus frustrating the moves of the hostile forces for sanctions
and blockade and bringing about a favourable turn in building an economic
giant.
Tourist zones must be built in
several places of the country, including the areas of Wonsan
and Mt. Chilbo, to promote tourism; provinces
must set up economic development zones that conform with their respective
features and develop them characteristically.
As long as the imperialists’
nuclear threat exists, we must keep up simultaneously carrying on the economic
construction and the upbuilding of the nuclear forces as an immutable line and
further consolidate the nuclear deterrents.
Our nuclear deterrents
represent the righteous means to defend the sovereignty of the country and
nation, prevent war and safeguard peace. When we have strong nuclear
deterrents, we will have nothing to fear even though a formidable enemy may
pounce upon us and we can concentrate our efforts without any worry on the
economic construction and the improving of the people’s standard of living.
The munitions industry sector
must make another big stride in the struggle to make our country a most
powerful nuclear state in the world.
It must produce precision and
small-sized nuclear weapons and the means of their delivery in larger numbers,
and constantly update the nuclear weapons technology in order to develop more
powerful and more advanced nuclear weapons.
To put the atomic energy
industry on an up-to-date, scientific footing is a major key to increasing the
production of nuclear materials and the quality of its products and making the
nuclear weapons small-sized and light on a higher standard. The atomic energy
sector must actively conduct the campaign to break through the cutting-edge so
as to introduce the CNC system and full automation to equipment and producing
lines.
We must put the atomic energy
industry firmly on the foundations of the cutting-edge science and technology
as required by the new century, and develop the self-supporting nuclear power
industry in order to ease the shortage of electricity in the country.
The People’s Army must enhance
the backbone role of nuclear forces in all aspects of the war deterrent
strategy and the war waging strategy and perfect the regular combat readiness
of the nuclear forces.
We are going to fix by law the
issue of holding fast consistently to the nuclear deterrents, the legacy of the
great General.
We must be proactive in the
external activities for creating a favourable environment for the
implementation of the line of carrying on the economic construction and the
upbuilding of the nuclear forces.
We must conduct the external
activities courageously with the dignity and strength due to a nuclear state so
as to further raise the international prestige of our Party. We must also
create external conditions and environment while maintaining the principle of
independence so as to forcefully promote the building of a thriving country.
We must conduct proactive
external activities to disclose the reactionary nature and unjustness of the US hostile
policy towards our Republic, the root cause that compels us to strengthen our
nuclear forces, and give publicity to the justness and inevitability of our
option and line. By so doing, we must increase the ranks of our supporters and
sympathizers in the international arena.
As a responsible nuclear state,
the DPRK will strive to ensure peace and security in Asia
and the rest of the world, implement its commitment to nuclear
non-proliferation it made to international society in good faith and contribute
to the realization of global denuclearization.
All officials, Party members
and other working people must dynamically turn out in the effort to carry out
the Party’s line of simultaneously carrying on the economic construction and
the upbuilding of the nuclear forces with confidence in sure victory and
fighting spirit of implementing Party policy to the death. In this way they must
step up the building of a thriving socialist country.
The revolutionary mettle and
fighting tradition of our service personnel and other people trained by the
great Generalissimos are that the more complicated the situation is and the
more gigantic the tasks facing them are, the more staunchly they advance along
the road they chose by themselves with firm confidence in the justness of their
cause and in victory.
Let us all be firmly united
around the Party Central Committee and bring closer final victory by
energetically pushing forward with the economic construction and the upbuilding
of the nuclear forces simultaneously as required by the prevailing situation
and the developing revolution.