It is important to enhance national pride and self-confidence.
Enhancing national pride and self-confidence is an important demand for preserving the Juche character and national character.
National pride and self-confidence are the manifestation of love for nation and spirit of national independence.
National pride and self-confidence are based on the pride in one’s country and nation and the ideological emotion solidified with the will to defend and further develop them by means of ideological work to establish the spirit of national independence.
Ideological work to strengthen the spirit of national independence should be conducted positively by small and backward countries and the countries which have heavily suffered from domination and intervention of big countries and in which flunkeyism and dogmatism remain deep-rooted.
Flunkeyism and dogmatism are products of national nihilism that is ideologically based on absence of the spirit of national independence.
National pride and self-confidence are formed and displayed when the good qualities of one's nation are understood.
Every nation is blessed with its good qualities and has the aspiration and desire to preserve and promote them.
The good qualities of a nation which are formed socially and historically in the struggle to shape the destiny of the country and nation have nothing in common with racial characteristics, nor are these qualities acquired by any special nation.
Insisting that national character is defined by racial characteristics, bourgeois racialists consider the white as a “superior race” and the colored as an “inferior race” according to skin colors and clamor that only the “superior race” can create and develop civilization and only the white can take good qualities. The reactionary racism has been served as an ideological instrument for racialism and obligation of nations by imperialists.
Preserving and promoting fine national traits is more important under the condition that there are in the world not only the imperialist and dominationist forces who move to paralyze the national spirit and revolutionary spirit of the people but the traitors to the nation who run against the people’s aspiration and desire disrupting the interests of the nation.
In order to preserve and promote the fine national traits, it is important to preserve the progressive and popular national heritage handed down through history and create new fine national traits continuously.
The fine national traits, which are embodied in the specific objects in all spheres of social life in the course of independent and creative struggle of one’s nation through the long historical process, directly arouse pride and self-confidence among the people with awareness of good qualities and greatness of their nations.
Like this, enhancing national pride and self-confidence is an ideological and spiritual source that firmly defends the Juche character and national character of the revolution and construction and guarantees the eternal victory in the cause of the people for independence.
