January 19, 2018

North Korea's defiance of U.S. foreign policy has earned it a top spot on the lists of foes compiled by various administrations, with President Donald Trump being no exception. Despite decades of overwhelming pressure, North Korea revealed Friday how it has managed to develop nuclear weapons and openly work on missiles capable of delivering them to the U.S.

Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the ruling Korean Workers' Party, published an article calling for a military build-up based on the reclusive nation's strict public adherence to self-reliance, encoded in the state ideology of Juche. Having recently declared itself a nuclear state in the face of intense economic sanctions and U.S. military pressure, North Korea said it succeeded only because its defense industry was self-built and armed with "an anti-imperialist class consciousness."

"Some countries known as regional powers and relatively rich countries failed to augment the military capability due to the sanctions of the U.S. and other imperialist powers," the commentary read, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

"The main reason is that they met the demand for the weapons by purchasing them from other countries as they failed to firmly arm the service personnel with the anti-imperialist independent consciousness and had a weak self-supporting defense industry foundation," it added.

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