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Full text of a report by Kim Jong Un at the 31 March 2013 plenary meeting of the Workers Party

of Korea Central Committee

Korean Central Broadcasting Station in Korean 1 April 2013

The report made by respected and beloved Comrade Kim Jong Un at the March 2013 plenary

meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea is as follows:

Comrades!

Today, we will hold a plenary meeting of the party CC to discuss and decide on an important

strategic line for advancing the victory of the cause of the chuch'e revolution pioneered from

Paektu in line with the demands of the present situation and the developing revolution.

Our revolution has walked a single glorious path of victory, boldly breaking through the worst

adversities and challenges amid a protracted and stern struggle against the imperialist allied

forces under the wise leadership of great Comrade Kim Il Sung [Kim Il-so'ng] and Comrade Kim

Jong Il.

The enemies, frightened by the fierce spirit of our army and people who are confidently

charging ahead toward the final victory under the party's leadership, are running amok

frenziedly in the maneuvers for isolating and crushing our Republic by fully mobilizing their

political, economic, and military forces, and this pushed the situation in our country to reach a

grave phase on the eve of war.

We are now faced with an important task to achieve a decisive victory in the all-out war of

confrontation against the United States to crush the enemies' ever-escalating anti-Republic

crushing maneuvers and forever glorify the socialist fatherland of chuch'e as the great Mt

Paektu state no one in this world can toy with.


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Based on the demands of the present situation and the developing revolution, the party CC set

forth a new strategic line on carrying out the economic construction and the building of nuclear

armed forces simultaneously.

Our party's line on carrying out the economic construction and the building of nuclear armed

forces simultaneously is a strategic line for reinforcing and developing the nuclear armed forces

bequeathed by the great general so as to impregnably bolster the country's defense capabilities

and channel greater efforts into the economic construction, thereby building a powerful state

[kangso'nggukka] where our people enjoy the wealth and honor of socialism to their hearts'

content.

Carrying out the economic construction and the building of nuclear armed forces simultaneously

is an essential demand of the prevailing situation.

Great difficulties are prevailing before us, who had intended to concentrate our efforts on the

economic construction so as to enable the people to enjoy the wealth and honor of socialism

without having to tighten their belts any longer on the basis of the war deterrent for self-

defense, which the great generalissimos provided by dedicating their whole lives.

The United States and its following forces fabricated a brigandish resolution on sanctions at the

UN Security Council by taking issue with our satellite launch for peaceful purposes successfully

carried out in December last year and committed the ruthless and evil hostile act of even

outlawing the legitimate right of a sovereign state to launch a satellite.

To cope with the prevailing situation, we unavoidably conducted the third underground nuclear

test for self-defense as part of practical countermeasures for defending the country's

sovereignty and security.

The United States and other hostile forces then ran about more madly and cooked up another

resolution on sanctions of higher intensity, while also mobilizing vast armed forces of


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aggression to carry out the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises aimed at

instigating a nuclear war.

Uniting firmly around the party CC, our army and people turned out as one in the all-out war of

confrontation against the United States to counter a war of aggression with a great war of

justice for the fatherland's reunification. Though the enemies are frightened out of their wits at

our ultra- strong counteraction and do not dare to fire first, they are not giving up their ambition

to crush our Republic.

Our peaceful efforts for the economic construction and the improvement of the people's living

standards can but accompany an acute struggle of countering the enemy, and the United

States' anti-Republic crushing maneuvers aimed at destroying our nuclear deterrent and tearing

down the socialist system by strangling us with sanctions and pressure will become prolonged.

The United States is now most fearful of our miniaturized, reduced-weight, and diversified

nuclear deterrent and is making the frantic last-ditch effort, believing that its hostile policy

toward the DPRK will come to an end if we, who have nuclear weapons, achieve economic

revival.

The United States' hostile policy toward the DPRK has become more vicious recently, and this

is related to the fact that it has switched the strategic center for world domination over to the

Asia- Pacific region and set its sights on us as the first target of attack.

This is why the United States is artificially intensifying tensions by blindly taking issue with even

our satellite launch for peaceful purposes and using this as a pretext to ceaselessly stage large-

scale joint military exercises by dragging in vast armed forces of aggression. The objective of

the United States is to resort to every means possible to achieve our nuclear disarmament and

the overthrow of our system.

The tragic incidents that took place in various countries in recent years show that a country

whose strength is not strong can neither defend its sovereignty nor the dignity of the nation, nor

achieve the happiness and prosperity of the people.


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We should never forget the lesson taught by the Balkan Peninsula and the Middle East region,

which did not acquire powerful national defense capabilities for self-defense while looking to big

powers and even abandoned their existing war deterrent under pressure and appeasement of

imperialists, and ended up as a victim of aggression in the end.

The enemies are now threatening and blackmailing us that we will not be able to achieve

economic development unless we abandon nuclear weapons, while also appeasing us that they

would help us to live happily if we opt for another road.

The more they do this, the more firmly we should grasp the nuclear treasured sword and open a

way out for great revival [kangso'ng puhu'ng].


is a natural law-governed demand of our developing revolution at the present time.

The cause of the military-first revolution permeated with the noble lives of the great

generalissimos is at a new historic turning point today.

We should reinforce the military-first might in every way and rely on it to unfailingly build the

world's most powerful country and a paradise of the people where all the people live happily

with nothing more to desire. Our party's determination is firm to have our people, who have

unchangingly walked a single path by following the party while overcoming innumerable

difficulties and trials, enjoy the happiest and most affluent life in the world with the military-first

benefits.

The struggle to develop the economy and improve the people's living standards can be

successfully carried out only when it is guaranteed by powerful military capabilities and nuclear

armed forces. We must achieve the people's happiness and the wealth and prosperity of the

great Mt Paektu state without fail by simultaneously pushing ahead with the war for defending

the fatherland and the construction of an economically powerful state in the same spirit as


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displayed in conquering space and the same mettle as displayed in succeeding in the nuclear

test of high level.


arises as an urgent requirement for thoroughly rejecting the domination and interference of

outside forces and advancing the historic cause of the fatherland's reunification, the gr eatest

long-cherished desire of our nation. Our nuclear weapons are a precious asset common to the

nation forever guaranteeing the thriving prosperity of a reunified fatherland.

The strategic line on carrying out the economic construction and the building of nuclear armed

forces simultaneously is a just line making it possible to extraordinarily bolster our war deterrent

and brilliantly achieve the cause of building a socialist powerful state [sahoejuu'i

kangso'nggukka] by putting greater spurs to the economic construction.

Our nuclear armed forces serve as a reliable war deterrent and as a guarantee for defending

the sovereignty of the nation. A worldwide cold war has continued for a long time for almost 70

years since the appearance of nuclear weapons in the world and there have been many small

and big wars in various regions, but only nuclear weapons states have not come under military

aggression.

When one is firmly equipped with the capability to make precision strikes with nuclear weapons

against aggressors and strongholds of aggression, no matter where they are on the face of the

earth, no aggressor can dare to attack recklessly, and the greater and more powerful the

nuclear strike capability, the greater the power of deterring aggression will be. Especially in

case of our country, whose opponent is the United States, the world's biggest nuclear weapons

state, and the United States is constantly posing nuclear threat to us, it is necessary to firmly

bolster the nuclear armed forces both quantitatively and qualitatively. Peace, and wealth and

prosperity, as well as the people's happy lives, rest upon powerful nuclear armed forces.


forces simultaneously is a realistic line making it possible to achieve the maximum effect in the


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country's economic development and the reinforcement of national defense capabilities in line

with our actual circumstances.

The United States and its following forces are now maneuvering by any means to create

obstacles to our struggle for building an economically powerful state and improving the people's

living standards by dragging us into an arms race. The new simultaneous line makes it possible

to further reinforce the country's defense capabilities with a small outlay without increasing

national defense spending, while directing great efforts to the economic construction and the

improvement of the people's living standards.

We have the strong atomic energy industry provided by the great generalissimos with their

clairvoyant sagacity, unsurpassed leadership, and iron courage and also inexhaustible uranium

resources.

The party's simultaneous line is a rational line making it possible to rely on the chuch'e-oriented

atomic energy industry to reinforce nuclear armed forces, while simultaneously solving the

strained electric power problem, and it is a just line for smoothly realizing our party's plan and

intention to enable the people to live happily without cares and worries, while also actively

coping with the prevailing situation.


forces simultaneously represents a succession to, and in-depth development of, the line of

simultaneously developing economy and national defense, which was set forth by the great

leader and thoroughly embodied by the great general.

At the fifth plenary meeting of the fourth party CC in December 1962, the great leader set forth

the line on simultaneously carrying out the economic construction and national defense

building, the first of its kind in history, and presented the revolutionary slogan called, A gun in

one hand, and a sickle and hammer in the other! It is because the leader clarified the

simultaneous line and provided national defense capabilities for self-defense, along with the


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self-supporting national economy, that we were able to firmly defend the gains of the revoluti on

without wavering in the face of the great upheaval of socialism collapsing in various countries.

The great general achieved the great cause of nuclear weapons possession while leading the

fierce anti-US nuclear war of confrontation to consecutive victories with the outstanding military-

first politics, and provided a firm foundation for protecting the socialism of chuch'e and making a

leap to the construction of a powerful state.

Today, we are able to firmly smash the vicious anti-Republic isolating and crushing maneuvers

of the United States and its following forces and do whatever we decide to do in accordance

with our faith, will, and guts. This is because we have the powerful nuclear deterrent, which the

great generalissimos provided by dedicating their whole lives. Forever will shine, along with the

history of the nation, the achievement of the great generalissimos who highly put our country

forward in the world as a nuclear weapons state.

The party's simultaneous line on putting spurs to the construction of an economically powerful

state, while impregnably bolstering the country's defense capabilities with nuclear armed forces

as the backbone [chungch'u], serves as a treasured sword for advancing the construction of a

socialist powerful state and the fatherland's reunification and as a banner enabling our country

to firmly defend the sovereignty and dignity of the nation generation after generation.

Embodied in the strategic line on carrying out the economic construction and the building of

nuclear armed forces simultaneously is our party's firm faith and will to complete, to the end, the

cause of the chuch'e revolution along the road of independence, the military-first road, and the

road of socialism paved and carried on by the great generalissimos.

We have to firmly take hold of and thoroughly implement the party's line on carrying out the

economic construction and the building of nuclear armed forces simultaneously.

Accelerating the construction of an economically powerful state and epochally improving the

people's living standards is the most important and pressing task our party is faced with at the

present time.


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It was the great general's lifelong desire to make our people live happily with nothing more to

desire in the world by building up an economically powerful state on the land of the beloved

fatherland. We have to accelerate the construction of an economically powerful state and

rapidly improve the people's living standards, as the general wished.

The outcome of building an economically powerful state hinges decisively, above all else, on

how the leading sectors of the people's economy and the basic industrial sectors are shored up.

Only when the electric power, coal, and metal industries and the railway transport sector

advance dynamically in the van can the overall people's economy rise up and advance

energetically. The leading sectors of the people's economy and the basic industrial sectors

should open up a breakthrough for victory in the ongoing march of great upswing, as befitting

the scouts and forerunners of building an economically powerful state.

We have to achieve a new turnabout in the development of agriculture and light industry, the

main fronts of building an economically powerful state.

We have to increase state investments in agriculture, do the farming in a scientific and

technological manner as required by the chuch'e-oriented farming methods, thereby

unconditionally fulfilling the grain production goals set by the party.

Holding high the party's appeal for loudly sounding the gunfire of the grand march for improving

the people's living standards, the light industrial sector should operate light industrial factories at

full capacity and extensively produce the people's consumer goods of good quality that are

favorably received by the people.

By fiercely stoking up the flames of the industrial revolution in the new century, we should

further raise the chuch'e-orientation and modernization level of the people's economy and firmly

convert the country's economy into a knowledge-based economy.


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The economically powerful state we are building at the present time, where the height and

speed of the economic and social development are regulated by the development of science

and technology, should be a knowledge-economy-based powerful state, which has science and

technology as its driving force.

By relying on our own resources and technology, we should domestically produce the raw

materials, fuel, and supplies urgently needed for the construction of an economically powerful

state and channel great efforts into realizing the chuch'e-orientation of key industrial sectors,

especially the metal and chemical industries.

We should strengthen the capability for developing new technology in all sectors of the people's

economy and improve factories and enterprises with modern technology by organically

combining science and technology with economy.

By putting efforts also into the development of space science and technology, we should

develop and launch more practical satellites of various kinds, including communications

satellites.

The economic guidance and management should be improved in order to achieve a turnabout

in the construction of an economically powerful state.

State economic organs, including the cabinet, should establish realistic strategies for economic

development and goals for each sector and stage, execute them thoroughly, and make good

use of the already established economic foundation to meticulously plan and coordinate the

production organization and command for bringing about upsurges in production.

It is necessary to research and perfect our-style economic management methods in line with

the demands of the development of reality.

Our-style economic management methods embodying the chuch'e idea should be the socialist

enterprise management methods in which all enterprises carry out their management activities


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independently with initiative, thereby making the masses of producers fulfill their responsibility

and role as the masters in production and management, while also firmly adhering to socialist

ownership of the means of production.

By making foreign trade become multilateral and diversified, we should smash the sanctions

and blockade maneuvers of hostile forces and open an advantageous phase in the construction

of an economically powerful state.

We should well organize tourism areas in various parts of the country, including Wo'nsan and

Mt Ch'ilbo areas, briskly promote tourism, and set up economic development zones in all

provinces in line with their actual circumstances and develop them to have distinctive

characteristics.

We should firmly take hold of the economic construction and the building of nuclear armed

forces as an absolutely invariable line and more firmly bolster the nuclear deterrent, so long as

the imperialists' nuclear threat continues.

Our nuclear deterrent is a means of justice for protecting the sovereignty of the country and

nation, preventing war, and defending peace. If only our nuclear deterrent is strong, we have

nothing to fear even if tens of millions of formidable enemies were to attack and can

concentrate our efforts on the economic construction and the improvement of the people's living

standards without any worries.

The munitions industrial sector should once again take a big stride forward in the struggle to

glorify our fatherland as a nuclear power unrivaled in the world.

We should increase the production of precision and miniaturized nuclear weapons and the

means of their delivery and ceaselessly develop nuclear weapons technology to actively

develop more powerful and advanced nuclear weapons.

Putting the atomic energy industry on a modern and scientific basis is a basic key to increasing

the production of nuclear materials, improving product quality, and developing miniaturized and


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reduced-weight nuclear weapons to a higher stage. The atomic energy sector should vigorously

wage the battle for breaking through the ultra-cutting edge and thus achieve CNC-ification

[CNC: computer numerical control] and robotization of the facilities and production processes.

We should also solve the country's strained electric power problem by firmly raising the atomic

energy industry to an ultra-cutting edge scientific and technological foundation as required by

the new century and developing a self-supporting nuclear power industry.

The people's army should increase the pivotal role of nuclear armed forces in all aspects of the

strategy for deterring and waging war and perfect the current combat readiness posture of the

nuclear armed forces.

We intend to legalize the issue of permanently holding fast to the nuclear deterrent, a legacy of

the great general.

We should actively carry out external activities to create a favorable environment for

implementing the line of carrying out the economic construction and the building of nuclear

armed forces simultaneously.

By boldly carrying out external activities with the dignity and might of a nuclear power, we

should further enhance the international prestige of our party, thoroughly establish the

backbone of independence, and also create the external conditions and environment for

vigorously spurring the construction of a powerful state.

We should increase the ranks of our supporters and sympathizers in the international arena by

actively carrying out external activities for disclosing the reactionary and unjust nature of the

United States' hostile policy toward the DPRK, which is the root cause pushing us to the

reinforcement of nuclear armed forces, and for making the correctness and inevitability of our

choice and line known.

As a responsible nuclear weapons state, we will make positive efforts for the peace and

security of Asia and the rest of the world, faithfully implement the obligation we have assumed


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before the international community for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and contribute

to realizing the denuclearization of the world.

All functionaries, party members, and working people should vigorously turn out in

implementing the party's line on carrying out the economic construction and the building of

nuclear armed forces simultaneously with the faith of sure victory and the fighting spirit of

death-defying implementation, thereby advancing the construction of a socialist powerful state.

It is the revolutionary temperament and fighting tradition of our army and people raised by the

great generalissimos to hold a firmer conviction in the correctness of their cause and in victory

and more boldly fight along the road they opted for, as the situation becomes more complicated

and more difficult and vast tasks arise.

Let us all unite firmly around the party CC and vigorously push ahead with the economic

construction and the building of nuclear armed forces simultaneously in line with the demands

of the present situation and the developing revolution, thereby bringing the final victory earlier.

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