Character, Duty and Ultimate Aim of the State

The DPRK is the socialist country of Juche where the ideas and leadership of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il are applied.

It is an independent socialist state representing the interests of the Korean people. In other words, it represents the interests of all the Koreans, including those in the north and south and overseas, and it is a country which has been built by the masses themselves and run according to their demands and will, a country in which the masses are the masters of everything and everything serves them.

It is the main revolutionary tasks facing the DPRK Government to strengthen the people’s power, to achieve the complete victory of socialism by dynamically carrying out the three revolutions-ideological, technological and cultural, and to reunify the country on the principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity.

Under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea the Korean people, closely united around Marshal Kim Jong Un, are stepping up the drive to carry the socialist cause through to the end, holding Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in high esteem as their eternal leaders.