North Korea claimed that the essence of its policies to strengthen national defense, including bolstering nuclear force, is to guarantee "the people's life and safety."
The Labor Party organ Rodong Sinmun said the same on the 21st in an editorial titled "The life of the Workers' Party of Korea's policy lies in absolute people-centeredness," saying, "Party policy is a policy that takes as its foremost mission the full responsibility for and resolute defense of the people's dignity and life safety," and stated accordingly.
Rodong Sinmun said, "For a person, nothing is as intense as the desire for a happy and stable life," adding, "The people's dignity and life safety are the most vital matters that must never be infringed upon even by an inch and must be protected under any circumstances."
It continued, "Even amid the persistent threats and pressure from hostile forces, the reason we have successively formulated and carried out to the end such policies as boosting national defense capabilities, including strengthening nuclear force, is to stockpile powerful military strength so as to tenaciously secure the people's independent life and livelihood in today's world, where tyranny and arbitrariness are rampant."
It went on, "There has never been a case in the world where, as in Korea, the defense industry and revolutionary armed forces are linked with and called by the party's sacred calling," adding, "In every line of the decision adopted at the Political Bureau meeting of the Party Central Committee, the unshakable stance of the Labor Party to take responsibility for the people's destiny to the very end is clearly reflected."