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North Korean state TV played patriotic songs calling for eternal loyalty to leader Kim Jong Il for building a "paradise" on the Korean peninsula, while the country's main newspaper issued a lengthy editorial pledging to defeat any U.S. aggression.
It also praised Kim's "military first" policy, under which he has devoted much of the impoverished country's scarce resources to his 1.2 million-member army, making it one of the world's largest.