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Mass Rally of Working People in Pyongyang

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 6 (KCNA) -- Over 100,000 working people from all walks of life in Pyongyang held a mass rally at Kim Il Sung Square today to vow to glorify this year of significance with proud successes in building a great prosperous powerful nation, upholding the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il. The joint New Year editorial said that the general task facing the Workers' Party of Korea, the army and youth this year is to conduct a revolutionary offensive on three fronts of politics and ideology, anti-imperialism and military affairs and economy and science to attain a higher goal in all fields of building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    At the rally Ryang Man Gil, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, made a report, which was followed by speeches of representatives of different strata.
    The reporter and speakers called on all the people to glorify this year as a year of radical significance in accomplishing the revolutionary cause of the Party and beat the drum of victory in the Songun revolution at all units and all posts.
    They said that the capital should take the lead in strengthening the driving force of the revolution in every way and consolidating the politico-ideological position as firm as a rock this year marking the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of the programme for modeling the whole Party and the whole society on the Juche idea.
    They laid stress on holding fast to the development of the national defence industry as the first strategic task, carrying on all work on the principle of giving priority to military affairs and realizing the unity of the army and the people in idea and working way.
    They called for holding fast to the Party's line of economic construction in the Songun era to channel the main efforts into the development of power and coal mining industries and make an effective use of the production foundation of light industrial factories and push ahead with technical modernization.
    And they called for increasing agricultural production to solve the food problem of the Pyongyang citizens.
    Present at the rally were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Han Song Ryong, Choe Thae Bok, Jong Ha Chol and Kim Jung Rin, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.