Holding high the militant slogan of the Worker’s Party of Korea put forward in the new year joint editorial, the Korean people are now vigorously waging the struggle to build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country rallying around leader Kim Jong Il under the banner of the great Songun. The great, prosperous and powerful socialist country is a country with strong national power, where everything thrives and people live envying nothing in the world.
It was President Kim Il Sung’s lifetime wish and grand objective to build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country.
True to President Kim Il Sung’s lifetime wish, leader Kim Jong Il leads the Korean people’s struggle to its implementation with his grand plan to build a socialist thriving nation on this land.
He made the DPRK fully demonstrate its powerful political, ideological and military might with the Songun-based revolutionary leadership during last ten odd years.
Today, their struggle to build a thriving nation entered into a new stage to raise their economy and people’s livelihood to a high level by relying on the strong political and military might consolidated through the Songun revolution.
At present, the Korean people are vigorously waging their struggle to build a great, prosperous and powerful nation in conformity with its requirement of a new high stage.
They fully demonstrate the political and ideological might, the quintessence of the national strength of the Songun Korea.
The fundamental guarantee in building a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country is to motivate the spiritual strength of the soldiers and people.
Only when the strength of the soldiers and people are fully displayed, can it be said that the country’s political and ideological might is on the highest level. If political and ideological might is weak, we can never build a thriving nation although its military and economic might is strong.
The WPK put forward the grand objective to open wide in 2012 the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful country with its strength. This was because it did not expect any miracles but saw the DPRK’s political and ideological might, which is more powerful than nuclear weapon.
Today, the WPK holds fast to the Juche-oriented ideology-first theory as a mighty sword and directs primary efforts to bringing into fullest play the spiritual strength of the soldiers and people.
The Korean people fully display the spirit of defending the leader at the cost of their lives and the spirit of single-hearted unity, the kernel of the spiritual strength. They absolutely trust and follow the leader, devote themselves to defend him and his absolute prestige and firmly unite around him. Thus, they consider the spirit of defending the leader at the cost of one’s life and the spirit of single-hearted unity as the eternal soul and lifeblood of Kim Il Sung’s nation.
They also arm themselves with the Juche idea and Songun idea more thoroughly and conduct the revolution and construction in their own style according to the mode of Songun politics in any circumstance.
Socialism is the destiny and future of the Korean people. They preserve the Juche character and national identity, thoroughly observe the revolutionary and class principles and keep alive the true nature of socialism in all fields of social life with their firm faith on the Korean-style socialism.
The Korean people constantly increase the DPRK’s military might by holding fast to the Party’s Songun-based revolutionary line.
The military affair is the most important national priority and strong defense capabilities are lifeline for the building of a thriving nation.
The WPK and the DPRK held the idea of giving importance to the military affairs as the basic strategy in building a great, prosperous and powerful nation and directed all their efforts to strengthen country’s military might. Therefore, the Korean people defended not only socialism but also brought about the dawn of a thriving nation by overcoming severe trials of “arduous march” and forced march.
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Today, the Korean people prepare the army into an invincible combatant rank by subordinating everything to strengthen the army, the backbone of self-defensive capabilities, on the principle of giving priority to the military affairs under the leadership of the WPK.
The Korean People’s Army establishes the revolutionary commanding system and military spirit acting as one under the command of the Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il.
It makes the soldiers one comrade sharing the idea and destiny with the Supreme Commander by realizing the unity between men and officers and harmony between political cadres and military cadres.
It prepares every soldier into stout combatants who have strong ideology and firm faith and acquired in the Juche-oriented war method.
The Korean people consider the building up of the national defense capacity as a nationwide and all-people undertaking in order to strengthen the might of the military power.
They give priority to the development of the defense industry as required by the line of economic construction in the Songun era and consolidate the material foundations of the self-defensive military capacity. They make the spirit of giving priority to the military affairs prevail in the whole society and let the entire people learn the military knowledge. They also turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress so as to consolidate the all-people and nationwide defense system that can smash the enemies at any time. The army and people realize the unity of idea and fighting morale and continue to give full play to the spirit of supporting and helping each other in order to consolidate rock-solid army-people unity, the pride of Songun Korea.
The Korean people are vigorously launching a general offensive to build an economic power.
At present, economy is the main front in the building of a great, prosperous and powerful socialist nation in the DPRK.
Their struggle to build an economic power is the fruitful struggle to acquire the features of a thriving nation and the general offensive to conquer a new peak for its prosperity.
Last decades, the Korean people could not but direct their main efforts to the strengthening of the national defense capabilities coping with the sharp situation when the anti-DPRK moves of the US imperialists reached to the climax. Thanks to the strong defense capabilities built under the Songun-based leadership of the WPK, the Korean people could now launch a general offensive to build an economic power.
The WPK put forward the main orientation for the building of an economic power at present. It is to steadily strengthen the Juche character of the national economy and update it on the basis of latest science and technology and to give full play to the advantages and vitality of the independent national economy. It also put forward the principle of technical modernization of the economy while preserving the specific features of the Korean-styled economic structure, the principle of making people enjoy substantial benefit while ensuring the greatest possible profits and the principle of developing external relations while putting main stress on tapping all domestic resources and potentials.
The Korean people are vigorously waging the general offensive to build an economic power by holding fast to the main orientation and the principles of building an economic power set by the WPK.
They, first of all, make decisive efforts to shore up the basic industries and the vanguard sectors of the national economy such as the power, coal, metal and railway transport, which constitute the lifeline of the socialist economic construction.
To make this year, which marks the 60th birthday of the DPRK, a worthwhile and delightful year by bringing about substantial changes in the people’s standard of living holding high the WPK’s people’s-living-first policy, the Korean people are waging revolutionary offensive to improve living standard of the people by solving food problem, increasing the production of consumer goods, building more dwelling houses. Officials in different economic sectors regard the WPK’s economic idea, theory and lines as their firm guidelines in the building of an economic power and thoroughly adhere to the principles of socialism, the principle of collectivism, in the management of the economy.
Today, the Korean people are conducting the struggle to build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country under the wise leadership of the WPK.
Victory is sure to come in the struggle of the Korean people to build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country.
The DPRK will surely open in 2012 the gate of a socialist thriving nation thanks to Leader Kim Jong Il who wisely leads the Korean people’s struggle to carry out the plan of building a thriving nation, and the struggle of the Korean people firmly united behind the leader.
