First Criterion
Once, a foreign personage who was on a visit to the DPRK courteously asked President Kim Il Sung about the basis of the politics of the DPRK.
The President gave him a clear answer that it is to thoroughly maintain independence.
After a while, the President said that maintaining independence in politics is, first, to defend the national independence and sovereignty of the people and, second, to implement the politics that relies on its people.
Looking up to the President, the personage made a polite request for further detailed explanation about it.
Noting that political independence is the first criterion and lifeblood of an independent sovereign state, the President said that independence is the life and soul of an independent sovereign state, to say nothing of the human. He added that the sovereign independence of a country presupposes political independence, which guarantees the function and role as an independent sovereign state.
The personage was completely fascinated by the statement “Political independence is the first criterion and lifeblood.”
