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.