Article 1. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is an independent socialist State representing the interests of all the Korean people. Article 2. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a revolutionary State which has inherited the brilliant traditions formed during the glorious revolutionary struggle against the imperialist aggressors and in the struggle to achieve the liberation of the homeland and the freedom and well-being of the people. Article 3. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is guided in its State-building and activities exclusively by the great ideology of Kimilsung-Kimjongilism. Article 4. The sovereignty of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea resides in the workers, peasants, soldiers, working intellectuals and all other working people. The working people exercise State power through their representative organs - the Supreme People's Assembly and local People's Assemblies at all levels. Article 5. All State organs in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are formed and function on the principle of democratic centralism. Article 6. The organs of State power at all levels, from the county People's Assembly to the Supreme People's Assembly, are elected on the principle of universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot. Article 7. Deputies to the organs of State power at all levels have close ties with their constituents and are accountable to them for their work. The electors may recall at any time the deputies they have elected if the latter lose the trust of the former. Article 8. The social system of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a people-centred system under which the working people are the masters of everything and everything in society serves them. The State shall defend the interests of the workers, peasants, soldiers, working intellectuals and all other working people who have been freed from exploitation and oppression and become the masters of the State and society, and respect and protect human rights. Article 9. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea shall strive to achieve the complete victory of socialism in the northern half of Korea by strengthening the people's power and vigorously performing the three revolutions - ideological, technological and cultural - and reunify the country on the principle of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity. Article 10. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is underpinned by the politico-ideological unity of all the people based on the worker-peasant alliance led by the working class.