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Joint New Year Editorial Appeals to Korean People's Hearts

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

   Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are roused to immense excitement and emotion by the joint New Year editorial calling upon them to glorify this year marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK as a year of gigantic struggle, a year of national historic jubilation, in which a great turn is expected in the history of the country and the revolution.
    The working people of the country are assiduously studying the editorial word by word, thinking they have to deeply grasp its idea and content and positively incorporate them into practice, if they are to greet the grand festival of DPRK founding anniversary in September with a sense of pride after scoring significant results in their work.
    In response to their high degree of enthusiasm in studying the editorial, the TV and radio continue reporting explanations of the editorial and the features of the working people of different strata stirred to the depths of their being.
    The leading newspapers such as Rodong Sinmun allot much space to articles explaining the editorial.
    Officials of industrial establishments and co-op farms across the country are meticulously planning the organizational and political work to bring home the idea and content of the editorial to the workers and farmers in various forms and ways.
    Those of the Pyongyang Thermal-power Complex, the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the Mangyongdae Machine-tool Factory, the Namsa Co-op Farm in Rakrang District, Pyongyang, and other units go to the work sites seething with production zeal, taking with them visual aids, and explain to the working people the content of the editorial in words easy to understand.
    The working people show special interests in the study of the tasks set before their units and fields and ways of their fulfillment.
    At all work sites working people have heated discussions on the editorial, combining it with practice, during breaks, and people are seen absorbed in studying the editorial in buses and subway trains in the rush hour.
    The Korean people have turned out as one in the efforts to implement the tasks set forth in the editorial, which appeals to them to launch into a general offensive this year for significantly marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK as a great revolutionary auspicious event which will go down in the history of the country and fling open the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful nation in a few years to come.