Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stressed in New Year Address for 2019 to bring about a revolutionary upsurge on all fronts of socialist construction by regarding self-reliance as a treasured sword for prosperity, a spirit which has always been a banner of struggle and driving force for a leap forward in the whole course of the Korean revolution.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said.
“This year we are faced with the task of expanding the country’s capability of independent development to open up bright prospects for taking a step forward towards socialist construction.”
The Supreme Leader illuminated the tasks to bring about a revolutionary upsurge on all fronts of socialist construction in New Year Address.
It is necessary to further strengthen the might of the independent socialist economy.
It is important to properly plan and thoroughly implement the national operations aimed at maintaining, reinforcing and reenergizing the national economy as a whole. It is also important for the state to give importance to the talent training and sci-tech development. It is also important for every sector in the national economy to give impetus to hitting the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development. It is also important to radically improve the people’s standard of living and push ahead, in a bold manner, with huge construction projects for national prosperity and the people’s wellbeing. It is also important to make proactive efforts to implement the tasks for the second stage of the forest restoration campaign, improve landscaping, urban management and road administration, and take every precaution against environmental pollution. It is also important for all sectors and all units to fulfil their quotas of the national economic plan in all its indices by identifying and enlisting every last reserve, possibility and potential and by increasing production and practising economy.
It is necessary to increase the politico-ideological strength of socialist Korea in every way possible.
It is important to unite the broad sections of the masses solidly around the Party by thoroughly applying the Juche-oriented view on the people, a people-oriented philosophy, in Party and state activities. It is also important to make Party members and all other people cherish the principle of our state first as an element of their faith and step up socialist economic construction in their own way and glorify the country’s great history by working with sincere devotion.
It is necessary to accelerate the building of socialist civilization.
It is important to establish a revolutionary habit of studying and a way of cultural and emotional life. It is important for the sector of art and literature to create splendid works including films and songs that reflect the times and reality and touch the people’s heartstrings. It is also important for the sector of public health to modernize pharmaceutical and medical appliance factories, upgrade medical institutions and raise the level of medical service. It is also important to conduct briskly the mass-based sporting activities and develop the specialized sporting techniques. It is also important to launch a powerful drive to establish a socialist way of life and ennobling moral discipline.
It is necessary to solidity the national defence capability.
It is important for the People’s Army to reliably defend the Party and revolution and the security of the country and the people and perform miraculous feats at all sites of socialist construction.
It is also important for the Korean People’s Internal Security Forces to defend unto death the WPK, the socialist system and the people. It is important for the Worker-Peasant Red Guards to effect a turn in strengthening its combat efficiency in this year of its 60th founding anniversary. It is also important for the munitions industry to actively support economic construction while steadily raising the national defence capacity to that of the world’s advanced countries.
Convinced that the WPK’s leadership is precisely the truth and victory, the Korean people are fully prepared to thoroughly implement the tasks put forward by the Supreme Leader in the New Year Address to open a new road of advance for socialist construction by dint of self-reliance.
