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Korean People Optimistic about New Year

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- The Korean people have started the new year's efforts for building a great prosperous powerful nation with firm belief that they can safeguard the sovereignty and dignity of the nation and make a radical progress in economic construction and in the improvement of the people's living under the Songun-based leadership of Kim Jong Il. General Ko Jung Ho of the Korean People's Army told the KCNA:
    "The servicemen have taken the first step with a new hope in the new year's march under the banner of Songun. All of them are determined to defend the leader with their lives and further strengthen the front of anti-imperialism and military affairs. We will defend and thoroughly implement the Songun idea and politics and thus fully demonstrate the might of the invincible revolutionary army".
    Though the economic condition of the nation is still difficult, the people are replete with surging enthusiasm and optimism, loudly singing revolutionary songs in their villages and working sites.
    The workers of the Musan Mining Complex successfully carried out a 120,000-cubic meter blast in the first work of the new year and produced large quantities of concentrated iron ore.
    The Kujang Area Coal Complex has overfulfilled its daily assignments from the beginning of the new year and. the Ryongsong Machine Complex and the Taean Heavy Machine Complex have registered signal successes in the production of ordered equipment.
    The researchers of the Hamhung Branch of the Academy of Sciences, who made tremendous achievements in scientific and technical researches last year, and other scientists throughout the country are now filled with a firm determination to hit higher targets of science and thus to make a positive contribution to the building of a great prosperous powerful nation. Assistance to rural communities is also brisk.
    All people throughout the country are supplying a large quantity of manure and farming tools to nearby co-operative farms.