Self-development-first principle

One day in November Juche 104 (2015) the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un personally guided the trial operation of newly manufactured subway train.

That day, shuttling between several stations on the new subway train, he highly appreciated that the train was manufactured by our own efforts and technology. And he said that our heroic Kim Il Sung’s and Kim Jong Il’s working class fully demonstrated that nothing is impossible when the revolutionary spirit of the working class is combined with modern science and technology through the process of manufacture.

He continued: with affection, trust, dignity and pride in everything of our own, we should consolidate our revolutionary base as firm as a rock and achieve the great cause of building a thriving nation without fail by our own efforts, technology and resources, and the spirit of self-development is the best.

The respected General Secretary stressed in the New Year’s address of 2016 that the principle of giving priority to self-development should be maintained in building a thriving socialist country, worship of big countries and dependence on foreign forces is the road to national ruin, and self-development alone is the road to sustaining the dignity of our country and our nation and to paving a broad avenue for the revolution and construction.