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Adherence to Line of Attaching Importance to Science and Technology Urged

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls for accelerating the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, adhering to the line of the Workers' Party of Korea on attaching importance to science and technology. The editorial says:
    It is a revolutionary principle of leadership consistently maintained by the WPK to attach importance to science and technology and energetically press ahead with the revolution and construction in reliance upon them. The WPK now regards science and technology as one of the three pillars of building the great prosperous powerful nation along with ideology and the army.
    It is the unshakable will of leader Kim Jong Il to bring science and technology up to the world's advanced level in the near future by developing them at a leaping pace and build a great prosperous powerful nation with their potential.
    Rarely high are confidence and zeal of scientists and technicians and all the people eager to fully display the dignity and might of Songun Korea with the leaping development of the science and technology of the country. The recent national meeting of scientists and technicians was an occasion of a dramatic turn in definitely lifting the nation's science and technology to the world's advanced level in a brief time to suit the requirements of the new century.
    The editorial appeals to the scientists and technicians to glorify the great Songun era endlessly by bringing a leaping progress of the century in science and technology in the spirit with which they opened the road of advance in building a great prosperous powerful nation by breaking through the grim ordeals of the "Arduous March" and forced march in bold offensive spirit.
    It stresses that primary efforts should be oriented to the development of IT, nano technology and bioengineering, the main target of the development of science and technology in the present times, technical engineering of important fields including mechanical engineering, metal engineering and heat engineering based on up-to-date science and technology be lifted to a new height and researches into basic science be developed in depth and thereby our country should be turned into a world-famous powerful country of science and technology.