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Pyongyangites Meet to Vow to Implement Tasks of Joint New Year Editorial

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

    Pyongyang, January 4 (KCNA) -- A mass rally of Pyongyangites was held at Kim Il Sung Square Thursday to vow to bring about a fresh turn in building a great prosperous and powerful nation by dynamically pushing forward the Songun revolution in warm response to the joint editorial this year. The rally was attended by Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Vice-Premiers Kwak Pom Gi and Ro Tu Chol, Cabinet members, leading officials of ministries, national institutions and working people's organizations, officials of the party and power organs, economic institutions and working people's organizations in the city, labor heroes, labor innovators and working people in the city. Pang Chol Gap, chairman of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, in a report said that the joint New Year editorial serves as a militant banner encouraging the entire party and army and all the people to make a dynamic general advance to attain the high goal of building a great prosperous and powerful nation by dynamically pushing forward the Songun revolution.
    The Korean people's access to nukes last year brought about a turning phase in building a great prosperous and powerful nation and resulted in such shining successes as demonstrating the resourcefulness and advantages of the Korean nation, he said, and continued:
    Gaining great confidence from the dawn of victory ushered in by the Party, the officials and other working people in the city waged a heroic struggle to make a fresh leap forward in reinforcing the political and ideological position in the capital and economic construction.
    Achievements were made in the agricultural production and the technological updating of the industrial establishments was accelerated to reinforce the economic foundation of the capital city. Not a few successes were made in the work to turn Pyongyang into a more magnificent city and a city of bliss.
    The reporter called on all the citizens to usher in an era of prosperity in all fields in the country and dynamically wage an offensive to build a socialist economic power this year. Underscoring the need for the agricultural field to hold fast to the Party's policy to make a revolution in agriculture, he called on all fields to provide materials needed for farming on a priority basis.
    He also underlined the need to update the light industry factories, keep production going at a high rate, increase the variety of consumer goods and improve their quality and thus boost the supply of better consumer goods to people. He called for making production centers and catering network for improving the people's living standard pay off more profusely, improving the supply of commodities and service for the people and implementing the Party's health policy to enable the citizens to greatly benefit from the socialist system.
    Officials and other working people in the field of power and coal industries in the city should drastically increase production and those in the field of construction step up the construction of public buildings and dwelling houses and renovation and repair projects in main streets, make buildings formative and artistic and significantly improve the city management and, at the same time, continue dynamically pushing forward the work to turn rural villages into a socialist fairyland.
    He called for implementing to the letter the Party's line of attaching importance to science and technology to closely combine production with science and technology and produce a greater number of able intellectuals through education and stage a widespread campaign to raise the level of knowledge among the officials and other working people.
    Speeches were made at the rally. The speakers vowed to dynamically step up the technological updating of production processes and equipment, widely introduce valuable technical renovation proposals to production to bring about a great improvement in the production of consumer goods through the intensified revolution in the light industry. They also called for widely introducing high-yielding crops and domestic animals of good stock and scientific and advanced farming methods and successfully doing double cropping to boost the per hectare yield of crops as required by the WPK's policy on the agricultural revolution. They called on the young citizens to volunteer to work at labor-consuming sectors of the socialist construction and fully display their energies and wisdom at major worksites to build a great prosperous and powerful nation including agricultural front and important construction sites just as their preceding generation of the revolution did. A resolution was adopted at the rally.