Kim Jong Un's Report at March, 2013 Plenary Meeting of C.C., WPK

Respected Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of our Party and the people made a historic report at the March 2013 plenary meeting of the WPK.

The content of the report is as follows.

We've met here today for a plenary meeting of the Party CC to discuss and decide on an important strategic line for accelerating the victory of the Juche revolutionary cause that originated in Mt. Paektu, to satisfy the requirements of the present situation and revolutionary development.

Under the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il our revolution has covered the glorious road of victory, bravely overcoming worst ever known adversities and challenges in the long and rigorous struggle against the allied forces of imperialism.

Our Army men and the people have been confidently dashing forward to final victory under the Party's leadership. Frightened by this soaring spirit, the enemies run wild in their scheme to isolate and stifle our Republic by mobilizing all political, economic and military strength. This has led the situation of our country to a brink of war.

The important task facing us today is to foil the enemy's machination to strangulate our Republic and thus win decisive victory in the frontal confrontation with the U.S. and add luestre to the honor of great Paektusan nation which no one dare pounce upon.

To meet the requirement of the prevailing situation and the development of revolution, the Party Central Committee puts forward a new strategic line on parallel development of the economy and nuclear arms build-up.

Our Party's line on parallel growth of the economy and nuclear arms build-up is a strategic line that intends to strengthen and develop the nuclear arms bequeathed to us by the great General Kim Jong Il so as to fortify our defenses like an iron wall while directing more efforts to economic construction to build a powerful and prospering country where our people will enjoy the benefits of socialist wealth and glory to the full.

The parallel development of the two is an inevitable demand of the created situation.

Taking to good account of the self-defensive war deterrence secured by life-long efforts of the great Generalissimos, we intended to focus on economic construction so that our people could enjoy the benefits of socialist wealth and glory, no longer having to put up with any hunger. But a new obstacle has cropped up on our way ahead.

Last December we successfully launched an earth satellite for peaceful purpose. But the U.S. and forces of its followers, wrangling about our satellite launch, invented an outrageous "resolution of sanction" of the UNSC, outlawing an independent state's lawful right to satellite launch. What a diabolic act of hostility.

The created situation compelled us to conduct the 3rd underground nuclear test as a link of our practical countermeasures to defend the country's sovereignty and security.

Things having come this far, the U.S. and other hostile forces, thrown into a greater frenzy, cooked up a more high-handed "resolution of sanction", and staged joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle to light the fuse to a nuclear war by involving huge armed forces of aggression.

Our Army and the people, rallied firm around the Party Central Committee, rose as one man in a battle of all-out confrontation against the U.S. to answer a war of aggression with a just, great war of national reunification. The enemies, panic-stricken by our extremely strong counter-measures, were too stunned to attempt any first try at us. But they have not given up the ambition to stifle our Republic.

Our peaceful efforts for economic construction and for better livelihood of the people had to be accompanied by fierce struggle against our enemies, and the U.S. scheme for stifling our Republic, the scheme to destroy our nuclear deterrence and our socialist system by strangling us through tightened sanction, will be prolonged.

The U.S. fears most our nuclear deterrence, now smaller in size, lighter in weight, and more multifarious. It is making its last-ditch effort as it knows when we, possessor of nukes, attain economic prosperity, its hostile policy toward Korea will end in failure.

The U.S. hostile policy toward Korea has become ever more vicious of late. This can be accounted for by a shift of the U.S. strategic center for world domination to Asia-Pacific region and change in the target of its preferential strike, it being to Korea.

That's why the US, picking up a quarrel with us for our peaceful launch of satellite, deliberately aggravated tension and, making it as an excuse, shipped in a huge armed force to conduct large-scale joint military exercises incessantly. The U.S. aim is to put us without nukes and overthrow our system by hook or by crook.

Recent tragic events in many countries show that a nation cannot defend its independence and dignity, nor can it bring happiness and prosperity to its people when it is not strong enough.

Never should we forget lessons of some Balkan and Middle Eastern countries: They pinning hope on big powers, failed to build up self-defensive national defenses and abandoned their war deterrence, unable to withstand the imperialist pressure and appeasement, falling a prey to imperialist aggression at last.

Our enemies blackmailed us, saying if we do not give up nukes we cannot attain economic progress, and tried to lure us, saying if we take another choice, they would help us live well off.

We must hold a firmer grip on our nuke treasured sword to open a broad avenue to become a strong and prospering nation.

It is a lawful demand of the development of our revolution to make a parallel progress in economic construction and nuclear arms build-up.

Our Songun revolutionary cause reflecting the life-long devotion of the great Generalissimos now enters into a period of new historic change.

We should boost the might of Songun in every way and, relying on it, build the most powerful nation, a people's paradise where all people enjoy the happiest life.

Steadfast is our Party's resolve to make our people enjoy the happiest and affluent life thanks to Songun as they have steadily traveled only one road following the Party despite of all hardships.

The efforts to develop the economy and improve the people's livelihood can be successful only when they are guaranteed by strong military power, nuclear forces.

We should achieve the people's welfare and prosperity of the great Paektusan nation by pushing ahead with the struggle for national defense and the building of an economic power simultaneously in the spirit of the conquerors of space and the mettle of the performers of the high-level nuclear test.

Building up the economy in parallel with the nuclear forces is an urgent task to totally reject the foreign forces' domination and interference and accomplish earlier the historic cause of national reunification, the greatest desire of our nation.

Our nuke is a precious wealth common to our nation that guarantees the prosperity of a reunified country forever.

The strategic line on building up the economy and nuclear forces abreast is a correct line to steadily boost our war deterrence and further accelerate the economic construction and thus brilliantly accomplish the cause of building of a powerful socialist state.

Our nuclear forces are a reliable war deterrent and guarantee to safeguard the sovereignty of the nation.

Over the past 70 years since the appearance of nukes in the world the cold war has been kept up for a long time on a worldwide scale and there have been many wars, big and small, but the nuke powers have not undergone military aggression.

No matter where the aggressors and the bases of aggression may be on the globe, no aggressor can commit a reckless attack if one is firmly equipped with the ability to make a precision strike with nukes and the greater and stronger the nuclear strike ability, the greater is the deterrent of aggression.

In case of our country in particular, our opponent is the U.S., the greatest nuke power in the world that is inflicting constant nuclear threat on us. That’s why we should beef up the nuclear forces steadily both in quality and quantity.

A powerful nuclear force ensures peace and prosperity and the happy life of the people.

The new strategic line is a realistic line to obtain maximum results in the economic construction and defense buildup of the country to suit our actual conditions.

Now the U.S. and its following forces are scheming to draw our country into arms race and thus lay an obstacle to our efforts for the building of an economic power and the enhancement of the people's standard of living.

The new line makes it possible to direct big efforts to the economic construction and the improvement of the people's welfare while further boosting national defense with less expenses without increasing defense expenditures.

We are possessed of the firm atomic energy industry provided by the great Generalissimos with their far-sighted wisdom, outstanding leadership and iron pluck and also inexhaustible uranium resources.

The new line is a reasonable line to beef up the nuclear forces in reliance on our own atomic energy industry and, at the same time, to settle the shortage of power; It is a correct line to fully realize our Party's plan and intention to cope with the prevailing situation positively and enable the people to enjoy a happy life without any worry.

The new strategic line on building up the economy and the nuclear forces abreast is a continuation and development of the line on simultaneously building up the economy and defenses advanced by President Kim Il Sung and thoroughly embodied by leader Kim Jong Il.

At the 5th plenary meeting of the 4th Central Committee of the WPK in December 1962 President Kim Il Sung set forth the line on simultaneously carrying on the economic and defense construction for the first time in history and advanced the revolutionary slogan reading "Rifle in one hand and hammer or sickle in the other!"

As the President clarified the line of simultaneous construction and provided the independent national economy and self-reliant defense power, we have been able to firmly defend the revolutionary achievements in a great upheaval in which socialism was frustrated in many countries.

Leader Kim Jong Il led the fierce anti-U.S. nuclear confrontation to victory with his prominent Songun politics and thus accomplished the great cause of possessing nukes, thereby defending the Juche-based socialism and laying a firm basis to leap to the building of a thriving nation.

Today we can do everything as we wish in accordance with our confidence, will and pluck while resolutely smashing the U.S. and its following forces' vicious moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK only thanks to the powerful nuclear deterrent built up by the great Generalissimos with their lifelong efforts.

Their services to turn our country into a nuke power of the world will shine forever in the history of the nation.

The Party's line on increasing the nation's defense capacity with the nuclear forces as its pivot and accelerating the building of an economic power is a treasured sword to bring earlier the building of a powerful socialist state and the country's reunification; It is a banner to safeguard national sovereignty and dignity generation after generation.

The new strategic line is an embodiment of our Party's steadfast determination and will to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche along the road of independence, the road of Songun and the socialist road pioneered and developed by the great Generalissimos.

We should hold fast to the Party's line on implementing the economic and nuclear forces construction abreast and carry through it perfectly.

It is the most important and urgent task facing our Party to accelerate the building of an economic power and radically improve the people's standard of living.

It was a lifelong wish of great Generalissimo Kim Jong Il to build an economic giant on this land and make the people live so well that they have nothing to envy in the world.

We should speed up the building of an economic power and rapidly enhance the people's standard of living as our Generalissimos wished.

In order to be an economic giant it is necessary to decisively shore up the pilot sectors of the national economy and the sectors of basic industries. Only when the electric-power, coal-mining and metallurgical industries and rail transport can afford to go ahead, the whole of national economy can make a vigorous headway. A breakthrough to victory in the present drive should be made in the fields of the pilot sectors of the national economy and the sectors of basic industries as befitting the scouts and pioneers in making the country an economic giant.

A new turn should be made in the fields of agriculture and light industry, the major front for building an economic power.

We should attain the grain yield target set forth by the Party by increasing the state investment in agriculture and do farming on scientific and technological basis, as required by the Juche method of farming.

In hearty response to the Party's call for astonishing success in bettering the people's living, the officials and workers of the light industry should operate light-industrial factories in full capacity and thus increase the output of high quality consumer goods favored by people.

We should bring the national economy on to a higher level of Juche-orientation and modernization and also develop the national economy onto a knowledge-based economy by raising the flames of industrial revolution in the new century.

Now the level and speed of development of economy and society are regulated by the development of science and technology. Therefore, an economic giant we are going to build should become a knowledge-based economic giant whose motive power is science and technology.

We should make great efforts to put the sectors of basic industries including metallurgical and chemical industries on the Juche-oriented base by home-producing raw, fuel and other materials urgently needed for building an economic giant.

We should form groups for new technological development in all fields of the national economy and organically link science and technology with the economy and thus modernize factories and enterprises.

It is important to exert our efforts to development of space science and technology in order to develop and launch more diverse application satellites including communication satellite.

In order to bring about a turn in building an economic giant it is necessary to improve guidance and management for economy.

The state economic organs including the Cabinet should set up practical strategies for economic development and goals of different fields and different stages and thoroughly implement them. They should organize well production and guidance for a new upsurge through effective use of the existing economic foundation.

It is necessary to research and complete the Korean-style method of economic management to meet the requirement of present reality.

Economic management of our style embodying the Juche idea should be a socialist way of enterprise management – firmly maintaining the socialist ownership of the means of production all the enterprises should independently and creatively carry out their business activities under the unified guidance of the state and the masses of producers should perform their responsibilities and roles in production and management as masters.

We should make foreign trade multilateral and diversified so that a favorable condition for building an economic giant may be provided, free from sanctions and blockades of hostile forces.

We should build tourist destinations and attractions in different parts of the country including areas around Wonsan and Mt. Chilbo for tourism while building economic development areas fitting practical conditions of different provinces for peculiar development.

As the imperialists persist in their nuclear threat to us, we should hold fast to the line of parallel growth of the economy and nuclear arms build-up and further augment our nuclear deterrence.

Our nuclear deterrence is a means of justice for defending the sovereignty of the country and the nation and safeguarding peace against war. When we have a strong nuclear deterrence can we focus on the economic construction and the improvement of people's living without any fear of attack by the enemy however strong he may be. The munitions industry should make another big stride to keep the honor of the country growing as a matchless nuclear power in the world.

More nukes, more accurate and smaller in size, and more carrier rockets must be put out and more advance be made in nuke technology so as to develop more powerful nukes.

Putting the industry of atomic energy on update and scientific base is the key to increasing the production of nuclear substances and raise their qualities for development of more minimized and lighter nuclear weapons.

Through the dynamic struggle to push back the frontiers of science, CNC technology and unmanned technology should be introduced in equipment and production processes in the field of atomic energy industry.

While developing the atomic energy industry on a firm ultra-modern base of science and technology to meet the demand of the new century we should develop independent atomic electric power industry to make up for acute shortage of electricity.

The People's Army should enhance the pivotal role of nuclear forces in carrying out the strategy of war deterrence and in executing war strategy and winding up the combat readiness of the nuclear force.

We are going to legalize our eternal grip on the nuke deterrence , a heritage of our great generalissimo Kim Jong Il.

We should boldly conduct external activities with the dignity and might of a nuclear power to create an external condition and environment favorable for building a thriving nation while further enhancing the international prestige of our Party and maintaining firm independent stand.

In order to expose the reactionary nature and unjustness of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, the root cause driving us to nuclear arms build-up, and convince the people of the correctness and inevitability of our choice and the line of our Party, the external activities should be positively conducted so as to prevail over more of our supporters and sympathizers.

We, a responsible nuclear possessor, will strive for peace and security of Asia and other parts of the world and honestly carry out our duty of non-nuclear proliferation we assume before the world community and thus contribute to creating a nuclear free world.

All the officials, party members and working people should turn out in the dynamic struggle to implement the Party's line on parallel growth of the economy and nuclear arms build-up with the invincible faith and fighting spirit and thus hasten the building of a thriving socialist state.

It is the revolutionary spirit of our army and people cultivated by the great Generalissimos and their tradition of struggle to confidently go along the road taken by themselves with firm faith in justice and victory of their cause in any complex situation and any difficult tasks.

Let all of us firmly unite around the Central Committee of the WPK and dynamically struggle to carry on the economic construction and nuclear arms build-up simultaneously in requirement of the development of revolution and thus accelerate our final victory.