Today we are waging a dynamic struggle to thoroughly carry out the five-year plan for national economic development and this year's national economic plan under the slogan of self-reliance advanced by the respected Comrade
The socialism we are building is a socialism based on self-reliance and the self-reliance required by the present struggle for carrying out the new five-year plan for the national economic development and the national economic plan for this year is a scientific self-reliance that makes it possible to make ceaseless leaps and innovations in production and construction and to carry out the revolutionary tasks entrusted by the Party by dint of science and technology.
The respected Comrade
"Based on the requirements of our developing revolution and the pressing demands of socialist construction, self-reliance during the period of the new long-term plan should develop so that it is nationwide, planned and scientific."
The self-reliance of the DPRK in the present struggle for developing Korean-style socialism into a new victory is not merely to produce backward things and make up for the shortage but self-reliance to demonstrate the might of socialist Korea in all fields.
In order to demonstrate the might of socialist Korea in all fields, it is necessary to hold fast to scientific self-reliance as a weapon of development.
In other words, it is only when we hold science and technology as the lifeline and give full play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance by relying on them that we can accelerate socialist construction more vigorously.
Scientific self-reliance is a genuine self-reliance required by the present era.
The reason why the scientific self-reliance serves as the genuine self-reliance required by the present era, first of all, lies in the fact that the present era is the era of science and technology, the era of knowledge-based economy.
Today, the era of science and technology and the era of knowledge-based economy, the development of science and technology with IT as the core is an important criterion for assessing the level of economic development and national power of a country.
The rapid development of the economy is guaranteed by science and technology.
It is an important feature of the present era that when science and technology are at high level, they become strong but, if not, they become weak.
Today when science and technology are developing at dazzling speed and they are playing a greater role in all aspects of the economic field being integrated with production, if we don't rely on the science and technology, we cannot advance even a step forward and, if we are just content with remaking backward things, saying that we are doing self-reliance, we can never overtake and outstrip the others.
It is a past thing when he worked with a view that even a humble creation was acceptable if it was made by himself.
It is inconsistent with the present self-reliance to reject modern science and technology, insisting on the outdated and backward things of the past and to drop the quality of products by using substitutes that lack quality requirements, instead of strictly adhering to the requirements of technical regulations with the quality of production as the first priority.
Only when we know modern science and technology and rely on them can we be actually self-reliant and achieve successes in the struggle for economic construction and the improvement of the people's living standards.
The satellite we made in space, the airplane we made in the sky and the electric car we made in the underground, despite the lack of everything and difficulties, are thanks to the vigorous struggle based on scientific self-reliance.
Therefore, scientific self-reliance is a genuine self-reliance required by the present era.
The reason why the scientific self-reliance serves as the genuine self-reliance required by the present era also lies in the fact that it is the best strategy for successfully building socialism by resolutely smashing all the challenges in the world and it serves as driving force for waging a dynamic drive for making a breakthrough in the cutting-edge.
The cause of socialist construction of the DPRK is a struggle for realizing the independence of the popular masses and a struggle for smashing all sorts of natural and social challenges which restrict human independence.
There still exist various types of challenges threatening the lives of mankind and deterring independence on the earth, and this is hampering the self-reliance struggle for accomplishing the Korean-style cause of socialist construction.
But these challenges do not disappear of their own accord and we cannot worship others.
Only scientific self-reliance serves as a guarantee for fulfilling the five-year plan for the development of national economy and for achieving the great victory of the cause of socialist construction by bravely overcoming all sorts of challenges and difficulties.
In order to achieve practical successes in all fields of socialist construction, it is necessary to actively solve on the principle of self-reliance the urgent scientific and technological problems arising in carrying out the five-year plan for national economic development by relying on science and technology and to promote the development of core and advanced science and technology.
It is a genuine patriot and pioneer of self-reliance who knows science in the present struggle for carrying out the five-year plan for national economic development and solves the scientific and technological problems arising in the reality by relying on their own sci-tech strength and constantly creates new things.
The hot wind of self-reliance today is the hot wind of science and technology and breaking through the cutting edge.
Only when we fully display the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance with a broad and innovative view of keeping our feet firmly planted on this land and looking out over the world with the conviction that we can do everything if the Party decides, can we successfully carry out not only the national economic plan for this year but also the five-year plan for national economic development.
Solving all the problems arising in socialist construction with our own efforts, technology and resources by dint of science and technology is the true meaning of self-reliance for today, the best strategy for socialist construction and the motive force for breaking through the cutting edge.
