The Korean people adorned the year 2017 with a great victory.
The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said.
“The year 2017 was a year of heroic struggle and great victory, a year when we set up an indestructible milestone in the history of building a powerful socialist country with the spirit of self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force.”
Last year the moves of the US and its vassal forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK went to extremes, and the Korean revolution faced the harshest-ever challenges.
In the face of the prevailing situation and the worst trials on the road of advance, the Workers’ Party of Korea trusted the people and the people defended the Party death-defyingly, turning adversity and misfortune to good account and ac
Through last year's grandiose struggle, the Korean people powerfully demonstrated at home and abroad their immutable faith and will to follow to the end the road of Juche-oriented socialism opened up by the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the single-hearted unity of socialist Korea in which all the people are firmly united behind the Party.
Last year the DPRK made notable headway in carrying out the five-year strategy for national economic development.
As a result of its vigorous endeavour to establish the Juche orientation in the metallurgical industry, an oxygen-blast furnace of the Korean style was built at the Kim C
Numerous light-industry factories in such sectors as textile, footwear, knitwear and foodstuff industries raised high the banner of Juche orientation and made proactive efforts to propel the modernization of several production lines by means of its own technology and equipment. By doing so, they provided a guarantee for making the range of consumer goods varied and improving their quality.
The machine-building industry, by upholding the banner of self-reliance and relying on science and technology, creditably attained the Party's goal for the production of new-type tractors and trucks, and thus laid solid foundations for speeding up the Juche orientation and modernization of the national economy and the comprehensive mechanization of the rural economy. The agricultural sector, by actively introducing scientific farming methods, increased the ranks of high-yield farms and workteams and reaped an unusually rich fruit harvest in spite of unfavourable climatic conditions.
The service personnel and people built magnificent Ryomyong Street and the large-scale livestock farming base in the Sepho area, and completed the task for the first stage of the forest restoration campaign, thereby demonstrating the might of great army-people unity and the potential of the socialist independent economy.
Amid a vigorous struggle for the creation of the Mallima speed, new model units emerged one after another, and a large number of factories and enterprises fulfilled their quotas of the yearly national economic plan ahead of schedule and made a proud ac
Successes were also made on the scientific and cultural fronts last year.
Scientists and technicians resolved scientific and technological problems arising in the building of a powerful socialist country and completed research projects in the cutting-edge field, thereby giving stimulus to economic development and the improvement of the people's living standards. The socialist education system was further improved and the educational environment upgraded, while medical service conditions were bettered. An example of artistic performance activities was created to infuse the whole country with revolutionary optimism and the militant spirit, and the sportspeople won victories in different international competitions.
All the successes made last year are the triumph of the Juche-oriented revolutionary line of the Workers' Party of Korea and a precious fruition of the heroic struggle of the service personnel and people who are firmly rallied behind the Party.
