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Korean People Launch into New Year's General Advance

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

   Pyongyang, January 3 (KCNA) -- Greeting the year Juche 97 (2008) with conviction of victory and optimism, the Korean people have turned out as one man in the general march of the New Year with the desire to glorify it as a year of historical turn.
    Very high is the enthusiasm of the working people of all strata to set off a storm of a new leap on all fronts of socialist construction by loudly beating the drum of the general advance from the first operation of this year.
    Upon receiving the militant slogan of the joint editorial "Glorify this year of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK as a year of historical turn which will go down in the history of the country!", the workers in charge of the vanguard sectors of the national economy are working ceaseless miracles and innovations at all the work sites.
    The workers of the power industry including those of the Pukchang Thermal-power Complex, the Pyongyang Thermal-power Complex and the East Pyongyang Thermal-power Plant are marching ahead in high spirits, boosting power production from the first day of the New Year, conscious that they are standing guard on the lifeline of socialist economic construction.
    The Pukchang and Tokchon Area Coal Complexes and the Sunchon Area Youth Coal Complex have reported noticeable results in production after setting themselves bold targets of increasing coal production. They are creating many more reserve cutting faces by keeping tunneling definitely ahead of cutting and actively introducing advanced mining methods.
    The workers of the iron and steel works including the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex and the Songjin Steel Complex are taking big strides ahead in the increased production of irons and steels by strengthening the Juche character of metal industry and hastening technical modernization.
    The railway workers in charge of the arteries of the country including those of the Pyongyang, Hamhung and Kaechon Railway Bureaus have hurled themselves into challenging operations, having set high goals to fully satisfy the growing demand by keeping the means of transport in good order, establishing a strict discipline and meticulously organizing and commanding transport.
    In response to the call of the joint editorial to hold fast to the people's-living-first policy, the working people in the sectors of agriculture and light industry are also all out in the great leap forward.
    Agricultural working people throughout the country are concentrating on the production of high-quality manure for increasing the fertility of paddy and dry fields out of the desire to implement the Party's policy of improving potato farming, considerably increase the grain production by introducing advanced farming technology and methods and make a fruitful farming of soy bean.
    Light industrial workers are putting spurs to steadily increasing the indices of consumer goods, ensuring their high quality and thus fully meeting the people's demand for them.