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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Accelerating Building of Economic Power

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

   Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun today editorially calls upon all the people to make a new leaping advance in building a socialist economic power with the vim and vigor with which they brought about the great Chollima upswing and thus glorify this significant year as a year of historic turn which will go down in the history of the country.
    The era of Chollima (the latter half of the 1950s) in the history of the Workers' Party of Korea and the revolution shines as the stirring era from which a great revolutionary surge originated and the era of epoch-making miracles and feats, the editorial says, and goes on:
    It was the Chollima era when the whole country was pervaded with the revolutionary traits of devotedly implementing the intention of the party and the leader by going through thick and thin, the heroic spirit of valiantly pulling through any ordeal and difficulty and militant stamina of making uninterrupted innovations and advances, not permitting even a moment's indolence and relaxation.
    The speed campaign which was vigorously waged in every grand socialist construction site in the 1970s and 1980s represented a strong wave of uninterrupted advance spurred on by Chollima, and the spirit of Kanggye, which was created in the forced march for the final victory, meant a successful inheritance of the Chollima spirit. By carrying forward the tradition of the great Chollima upswing the Korean people kindled the torch of Songgang and the torch of Ranam and advanced in the spirit of Thaechon, glorifying the era of Songun as the era of great creation and change.
    A general advance is now under way to fling open the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation on the basis of the proud victories and successes gained in the Songun revolution. This stirring period calls for effecting an unprecedentedly great revolutionary upswing in socialist construction through the full play to the mental power of all the servicepersons and people.
    The editorial underscores the need to demonstrate the might of the single-minded unity of the leader and the people, give fuller play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and dynamically wage the movement for displaying popular heroism and making collective innovations in the on-going general offensive.