Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Leading newspapers of the DPRK Tuesday dedicate editorials to mark the 77th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

September 9, 1948 is an important day when the great state in which the people seized the power, the will of the people is reflected in the national policies and the right of the people is guaranteed by the law was founded for the first time in a 5 000-year-long history, Rodong Sinmun says and goes on:

Our state's sacred course of development shining with victory and glory vividly shows the eternal truth that the great leader builds an invincible power.

Our Republic is the greatest patriotic legacy of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's outstanding ideas, extraordinary leadership and absolute authority are decisive factors which put the dignity and mightiness of the Republic on the highest level after the nation building.

It is the greatest exploit of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un to usher in an our-state-first era, an era of power which has been long desired through a 5 000-year-long history, on this land and to ensure eternal peace and permanent prosperity for the people and posterity.

The prestige of our state which has been fairly put on the centre of the global political landscape and its rosy future are linked with the absolute authority of the respected General Secretary, the man of great eminence in the present era.

It is inevitable and lawful that our Republic is powerful forever and prospers as it is supported by the people possessed of strong self-respect and patriotism that no one can break.

Our country is dignified as it holds the great leader in high esteem, and an invincible power making long strides following up the victory as it has the great people regarding loyalty and patriotism as their duties.

Minju Joson called upon all the people to hold aloft the banner of independence in politics, self-support in the economy and self-reliance in national defence under the leadership of the Central Committee of the great Workers' Party of Korea and demonstrate before the world the dignity and prestige of the independent power and the honor and heroism of the people of the powerful country. -0-