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Joint New Year Editorial Issued

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi today released a joint editorial under the title "Usher in a Great Heyday of Songun Korea Full of Confidence in Victory" on the occasion of the hope-filled New Year. The DPRK has never seen in the annals of the protracted and arduous Korean revolution such year as 2006 in which the position of the country was justifiably raised to the level of powerful one and the dignity of the Korean nation was vigorously demonstrated, the editorial says, proudly reviewing the epoch-making events and historical victories gained last year.
    The cheers of victory in the Songun idea and Songun politics had prevailed all over the world and the turning phase opened in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation and proud successes demonstrating the wisdom and superiority of the Korean nation had been achieved last year, the editorial notes.
    Noting that the New Year Juche 96 (2007) will be a year of great changes, a year which will usher in a new era of prosperity of Songun Korea, the editorial refers to the tasks for this year.
    We must glorify this year greeting the 95th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as a year of great efflorescence of his wish for a prosperous and powerful country, a year of brisk activities across the country and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army as an all-people event that would demonstrate the invincibility and bright future of the Songun revolution, the editorial says. "Usher in a great heyday of Songun Korea full of confidence in victory!"-this is a slogan we should put up in struggle and advance, it stresses.
    Calling for waging a dynamic offensive campaign to build a socialist economic power and continuously exerting a great effort to strengthening the defence capabilities, holding aloft the banner of Songun, and consolidating in every way the unity of revolutionary ranks in thinking and purpose, so as to demonstrate the might of our country as a political and ideological power, the editorial points to the ways to do so. All the fellow countrymen should hold high the slogan "Add brilliance to the June 15 reunification era by attaching importance to the nation, maintaining peace and achieving unity!" and bring about the greatest success in the cause of independent reunification, it notes.
    We will remain faithful to the last to our historic mission in safeguarding global peace and security and advancing the cause of independence of humanity, and continue to intensify international solidarity with the progressive peoples under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, the editorial stresses.