Hopefully someone comes with a more thorough answer and theory, but just to get started: it just means self-sufficiency. The DPRK has always been in a particularly brutal position, and has been ostracized thoroughly. Self sufficiency and the sacrifice necessary to achieve it have therefore been the guiding forces for the development of their socialist experiment.
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