Since the words local and rural have been occurred in human history, the terms have always been pronouns of backwardness and poverty. Even in countries with strong economic power today, the distinctions between the capital and the provinces and between the city and the countryside in their living conditions are a problem that cannot be solved. However, the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is executing a policy to promote the welfare of the local people and fundamentally obliterate the distinctions between the capital and local areas and between the city and the countryside, with its unique principle of state building and energetic leadership and thus, is aspiring towards the building of a highly civilized country that completely eliminated the distinctions between cities and countryside in their living condition for the first time in the world.
The respected Comrade
"The 100-year plans of the regions are immediately the future of our state for its next 100 years and a prospect of socialism of our own style."
The WPK set it as the principle of state building to make the Capital envy the provinces, under the ideal that the country that is being strengthened from below to the top is truly the socialist state that the Korean people idealize where the working masses are the masters of the state.
The principle of state building of the WPK on making the Capital envy the provinces is the best idea, in terms of the general principle that great success can be achieved only when all work is well-founded, and the position and role that cities and counties play in the Korean-style socialist construction.
The validity of the principle of state building of the WPK is that it is a revolutionary idea that consolidates the people-centred foundation convinced of the superiority of the socialist system as a rock and accelerates the building of a powerful state.
The principle of state building to make the Capital envy the provinces is not merely a principle that reflects the demand for vigorously pushing ahead with the work to consolidate the material and technical foundations of the provinces.
The principle of state building of the WPK is a starting point from the purpose to consolidate the material and technical foundations of the provinces, while further instilling faith in socialism into the people, through the process of reducing the distinctions between cities and countryside and developing the provinces in a balanced and unified way.
The essence of the principle of state building peculiar to the WPK is: Local construction is not a mere practical undertaking to build a few factories or buildings. It is an important political undertaking, which gives full play to the advantages of the state and social system with the people-first principle as its ideal, deeply instilling the truth and invincibility of the socialist cause into the people.
In order for the socialist system to be solid under any circumstances, there must be a solid foundation of the public confidence in its superiority, all the people should fully sympathize with this through their real life experiences, and there must be a firm idea and will of all people to share their destiny with socialism and defend it generation after generation.
Now the Korean people feel the images of the great changes in different parts of the country, have a firm faith that the great cause of local revival is science and victory, and are fully determined to uphold the leadership of the Central Party Committee with all their efforts.
Nothing is as firm and powerful as trust and ideological intelligence based on experience.
This is why the struggle of the Korean people is leading to brilliant fruitions.
This eloquently tells us that the principle of state building of the WPK is a scientific and right principle.
The validity of the principle of state building of the WPK is also that it is a realistic idea that stems from the important position and role played by the cities and counties in socialist construction of the Korean style.
The WPK has pushed ahead with the building of politics, economy and culture with cities and counties as regional bases for the past decades, has always directed great efforts to strengthening cities and counties to eliminate the distinctions between the working class and the peasants, between industry and agriculture, and between cities and the countryside and to bring about the overall prosperity and development of the country.
In the DPRK, the ideological and leadership system have been established in which all the lines and policies of the WPK are conveyed and enforced to all the people through cities and counties. In this way, the cities and counties have developed into the basic unit and powerful political fortress for organizing and executing the implementation of the Party's policies directly, and in a unified and comprehensive way.
The WPK has defined the cities and counties as the most rational units in developing the local economy in a comprehensive way, formed the structure of the economic sector needed by the cities and counties, and has established a well-regulated system of guidance over the local economy so as to ensure close ties between the economic sectors while raising backward links.
On the other hand, the WPK fully provided the cities and counties with the socio-economic and material and technical conditions to guide the rural economy, taking into account the characteristics of the rural areas and agricultural production being affected by climate change, and has also developed economic links between the city and the countryside through the strengthening of the commercial links between the city and the countryside and the supplying to the countryside.
Thus, thanks to the long-standing energetic leadership of the WPK, the cities and counties have become regional units and regional bases for socialist construction in the DPRK today and a powerful fortress supporting the overall development of the country.
The reality of the DPRK shows that the strengthening of the cities and counties will soon strengthen the national power and lead to comprehensive development and a full-scale revival in the DPRK.
At the same time, it clearly proves that the principle of state building of the WPK is a right idea.
The world will witness directly how, the implementation of the revolutionary and scientific principle of the Workers' Party of Korea to make the city people envy the local people, will lead to the song of happiness and hurrah of socialism in different parts of the territory of the DPRK.
