Possession of Powerful Strength Is Truth
for Defending Sovereignty

Japan launched military satellite Kirameki-2 on January 24.

Kirameki-2, the first independent satellite of the Defence Ministry, will be reportedly used for commanding and controlling all units of the "Self-defence Forces" and information sharing among them.

Now the Japanese reactionaries insist that the purpose of the satellite launch is to contain the DPRK but it is clear to even a mere child that it is targeting the neighbouring countries.

What matters is that the US and its vassal forces, which cried out for "sanctions" after branding the DPRK's launch of satellite for peaceful purposes as a "provocation" and "threat", are keeping mum about the military satellite launch of Japan.

Under the double-dealing standard unilaterally set by the US, the bullying forces term the DPRK's legitimate exercise of satellite launch for peaceful purposes "illegal" and "provocation" but tacitly connive at some countries' satellite launch for clear military purposes. This is a common practice on the international arena at present.

The present world political arena turned into a theatre of violence centred on big powers in which justice, truth, conscience, obligation, equality and respect gradually disappear and injustice, strong-arm politics, hegemony, arbitrary practices, aggression and domination prevail and the most elementary principle governing the international relations set by humankind under agreement are disregarded.

The US-led imperialist forces resort to undisguised domination and interference, openly violating weak and small nations' sovereignty and the right to existence.

They insist on the jungle logic that other countries must not do what they do and even take issue with the sovereign states' legitimate right and legitimate exercise of sovereignty.

The "privileged" forces who lord it over the UN and other arenas of the world unilaterally handle all the issues to meet their interests in wanton violation of the independent requirements and interests of majority of the developing countries.

The trend of the situation surrounding the DPRK clearly reflects the epitome of the extremely unfair world politics.

The DPRK has been exposed to unprecedented nuclear threat and blackmail and political, economic and military pressure for decades for the mere reason that it has not yielded to the US high-handed and arbitrary practices.

In recent years the US openly cried out for "regime change" and "collapse of social system" while describing the DPRK's declaration of its possession of smaller H-bomb and its military measures for self-defence as "serious threat" and "provocation" to the world peace and security and hurling huge nuclear strike means into the Korean peninsula.

In the world which sees the rein of the jungle law whereby justice is branded as injustice if one is weak, the DPRK had access to nuclear weapons, prompted by its noble sense of obligation to defend the sovereignty and dignity of the nation more valuable than one's own life in the face of the high-handed and arbitrary practices of the US and other big powers and usher in the historic era of independent reunification and peace and prosperity for all the generations to come by its own efforts.

It is the truth proven by history that one has to build up one's own strength in order to protect the dignity and sovereignty of the nation.

KCNA