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2008 to Be Chronicled as Victorious Year

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

   Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- Juche 97 (2008) is a significant year marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK.
    The Korean people with joy and excitement have ushered in 2008 to be recorded in the history of the DPRK as one more victorious year. They are now full of enthusiasm to make a new giant leap forward this year without fail, rallied close around Kim Jong Il.
    They have celebrated each decadal anniversary of the DPRK with remarkable achievements from 1948.
    They marked the 10th birthday of the DPRK in 1958 with the heyday of the Chollima era and the establishment of the socialist system and its 20th jubilee in September 1968 with the high pride of having brought to its knees U.S. imperialism which raised war clamors triggered off by its armed spy ship Pueblo incident and of having entered a prosperous age of socialism.
    Its 30th and 40th anniversaries were also commemorated with laudable successes made by the wisdom and sweat of the people.
    The Korean people vigorously turned out in the efforts to implement the letter of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea calling for the fulfillment of the grand Second Seven-Year Plan to bring out a new turning-point of the Korean revolution and to observe the 30th birthday of the DPRK in 1978. They also made a new turning-point in the socialist construction through the historic 200-day campaign and dynamic nation-wide grand construction campaign in 1988 before celebrating the 40th anniversary in a grand way.
    The Korean people fully demonstrated their firm confidence and will to certainly see in the morrow of the thriving country by launching the first artificial satellite Kwangmyongsong No.1 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the DPRK.
    They are drumming up support for the general advance from the outset of the new year, holding aloft the slogan "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 Korean people, inheriting the great tradition of having made the annals of the DPRK replete only with victory and glory, are sure to commemorate its diamond jubilee grandly with world-startling miracles and feats as a revolutionary event which is of greatest significance in the history of the country.