"Glorify This Year Greeting the 55th Anniversary of the Party Foundation as A Year of Proud Victory
 in the Frame of Great Chollima Upsurge"

 Today, we greet the hopeful New Year Juche 89 (2000) as we review the chronology of Korean revolution that undergone rigorous storm of history.

It is great pride of our party and the Korean people that we are greeting the year 2000 with continuously holding afloat the banner of Socialism.

Determined to carry through a New Year's all-out march, all party members, soldiers and people are wishing Comrade Kim Jong Il the greatest honor and long live as they are firmly rallying around him.

Last Year Juche 88 (1999) was a historic year in which a great turn was made in the building of a powerful nation.

Over the last couple of months, we have ridden out the unprecedented hills of trial. The "arduous march" and "forced march" which we carried out in the latter half of the '90s were our desperate battles to defend Socialism.

Last year the Korean people made tireless efforts to turn a difficult march of years into a canter march.

The heroic epic of "arduous march" left an immortal great achievement which will be remembered forever in the long history of our struggle for revolution.

Last year the perfect unity between the leader and the people that was consolidated in a hard-fought struggle fully demonstrated its tremendous strength.

The will of the WPK and the people to hold in high esteem the great Kim Il Sung as the eternal leader and make revolution as taught by him became unshakable with his fifth death anniversary as a moment.

The noble ideological outlook of the people, who are determined to rely on Comrade Kim Jong Il as mainstay and ready to struggle for him wherever they are, were highly manifested.

Last year witnessed many heroes eternally faithful to the party and the leader. The great victory of marathon runner Chong Song Ok was a meaningful epoch making event of the 20th century, demonstrating all over the world the dignity and honor of the Korean nation who will fight it out against all adversities.

By energetically pushing ahead with the movement to model after the heroes of our era, we could enliven such national sentiments as "leader-safeguarding spirits," "death-defying fulfillment spirits" and "revolutionary optimism."

It is great achievement outpacing tens of thousands tons of rice that we could produce large contingents of strongmen of ideology and faith.

Last year the Second Chollima Advance was made nationwide to lay a more solid foundation for the building of a powerful nation. Despite difficulties, all people rose as one and did many jobs in order to realize grand economic construction of the Party.

Under the torchlight of Songgang, we waged vigorous struggles to bring about a product-upsurge in various fields of the people's economy. The great forces were devoted to the agricultural development, thus meeting the demand of Juche-styled agricultural method.

We registered great achievements in magnificent nature-remaking projects such as land re-zoning in Kangwon Province and North Pyongan Province, and construction of Kwangmyongsong Salt Factory. Thanks to the self-sacrificing efforts of scientists and technicians, many scientific-and-technical problems were solved.

Last year the solid foundation for powerful nation was made and we grew strong enough to make a quicker advance in future.

The world-startling Second Chollima Advance fully demonstrated that our revolutionary spirit of building the socialist powerful state cannot be checked by any force.

Last year also witnessed a resounding victory in the political and military confrontation with the Imperialists.

In the '90s our country became the severest battlefield for fighting against Imperialists.

Although the machinations of Imperialists aimed to crush and isolate our socialism have unprecedentedly intensified, it is not we but Imperialists that have fallen into an awful predicament.

In dealing with Imperialists, we have stood face to face against their power policy and crushed their deceptive appeasement policy with our definite revolutionary principle.

The world-startling victory of ours underscored the need to discard even the slightest illusion about Imperialism and fight it out till a final victory is won.

Last year was glorified with the energetic guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Il, who stands in the forefront in the cause building the powerful nation.

In the pulsating reality, Comrade Kim Jong Il has always mapped out a plan and administered wise politics to inspire the people.

Thanks to the brilliant wisdom and painstaking labor of Comrade Kim Jong Il, many fine examples for others to follow have been produced nationwide, giving momentum to the building of the powerful nation. The great model of the leader has been spreading among the people like a wildfire.

The army-first politics is a revolutionary guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Il.

Comrade Kim Jong Il has spared no time safeguarding the fatherland, inspecting the military front on almost daily routine. At the same, he has also pushing ahead with socialist construction.

 In the vanguard of the "year of turn," or "canter march," there has always been Korean People's Army. In the vanguard of the Korean People's Army, there has always been Comrade Kim Jong Il, Supreme Commander of the KPA.

His army-first politics - putting the KPA at the first place as a pillar of revolution and arming the workers and farmers with revolutionary-soldier-spirits - shines as a powerful and perfect socialist political mode in our era.

 The great achievements of Comrade Kim Jong Il, who opened the solemn era of powerful nation in the historical year of 1999, will go down to prosperity forever.

 The New Year Juche 89 is a year of general advance to make a significant stride forward in the building of a powerful nation under the leadership of the great party.

 Comrade Kim Jong Il taught us as follows:

 "Our struggle to build a powerful nation is the most worthwhile and titanic one, which will brilliantly inherit and complete the cause of Juche socialism, and make our country more powerful and prosperous socialist state."

 This year is meaningful one commemorating with the 55th anniversary of the party foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea. The 55th anniversary of founding of the WPK is a great festival glorifying forever the immortal revolutionary cause of the found of the Party.

 All parties, army and people must strengthen the spirit of socialist Korea, turning out as one in order to overcome the difficulties this year that cerebrates the 55th anniversary of the founding of the WPK.

 The ongoing advance to significantly celebrate the 55th anniversary of the WPK is a struggle to take a giant leap forward in the building of a powerful nation under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Il. It is a sacred struggle to demonstrate the invincible might of socialism of Korean style that has been defended in grim ordeals.

 Our ideal and aim is to build a powerful nation and the banner of socialism of Juche is the banner of victory.

 "Glorify This Year Greeting the 55th Anniversary of the Party Foundation as A Year of Proud Victory in the Flame of Great Chollima Upsurge" - This is a militant slogan that the WPK and the people should put up this year.

 We should step up the general march this year firmly maintaining the line of giving great importance to ideology, arms and science and technology. Ideology, arms and science and technology are the three major pillars for the building of a powerful nation. Steadfast ideology, powerful arms and upgraded science and technology represent a powerful socialist nation of Juche.

To attach great importance to ideology is the life and soul of the WPK and the mainstay of Korean-style socialism. Our Juche-typed revolutionaries should become ideologists who firmly hold their faith in death-defying manner.

 Today's march is a struggle to safeguard and glorify the socialism with the power of revolutionary ideology thought by Comrade Kim Jong Il.

 We should push through the Party construction, army construction and economic construction in the only manner taught by Comrade Kim Jong Il.

 Everybody should hold as one's motto the Party's idea and intention, and become fighters and disciples committed to Comrade Kim Jong Il.

 The most fundamental point regarding to the socialist ideology is the spirit of defending the headquarters of the revolution.

 Comrade Kim Jong Il is ever-victorious leader as well as great guardian of the socialist cause. Our revolutionary fighters should devote their youth to the death-defying protection of the leader and should adorn their golden ages with the death-defying protection of the leader. Armed with spirits of revolutionary soldiers, we should become guns-and-bombs to protect the leader at the cost of our lives.

 Our socialism is an invincible fortress safeguarded by the definite class stand and staunch anti-imperialists spirits.

 We cannot compromise our socialist class fortress even a 0.001 mm, which has been protected through the decades long bloody battles.

 The illusion for the imperialism is a poison for those who committed to revolution. We should consistently strengthen the class education of anti-imperialism in case for the imperialists may challenge us with high-handed approach or deceptive one. With always in our minds the bloody lesson of Sinchon Massacre, we should never make a concession to imperialists.

 We should strongly wage battle to check the spread of imperialists' idea and culture to our country. We should be optimistic in time of adversity, filled with a belief of ultimate victory.

 The idea of attaching great importance to military affairs should be thoroughly applied.

 It is Comrade Kim Jong Il's iron belief to accomplish the Korean revolution by arms, a revolution which has been developed by arms.

 To attach great importance to arms is a strategic line that should always be held fast to as long as imperialism remains and the revolution goes on. It is the most important state affair to which top priority should be given by all units. Today, in the world, the most reasonable way to defend socialism is to attach importance to national defense.

 Our People's Army is the invincible fortress of the Korean style-socialism and the main force for the construction of a powerful nation.

 The gun which the People's Army takes hold of is permeated with its burning spirit of protecting the leader and with its strong class consciousness that shows little mercy to its enemy. Soldiers of the People's Army should defend their headquarters to the last like guard companies in the era of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. A revolutionary commanding system and military rules, which make soldiers absolutely obey the supreme commander, should be thoroughly applied in the whole sections of the army. We should strengthen our People's Army as the fruition of revolutionary comradeship which is filled with a virtue of unity of officers and soldiers and as the true revolutionary armed forces that love the people.

 The target of our revolutionary armed forces has been unchanged up to the present. Officers and men of the KPA must be an iron fist, which will mercilessly break down the enemies of the working classes, enemies who plot to destroy our fatherland and social system. Officers and servicemen should surely protect the blue sky, green fields and the blue sea of our fatherland with their infinite love for the fatherland.

 The KPA is the army of the three generals of Mt. Paekdu and the army which fight and win in a fighting manner of the anti-Japanese partisans. The indomitable fighting spirit that we will crush the enemy even though we die hundreds of billions of times, the matchless strong fortitude that they will survive and fight to the very end if only they have water and air, the tactics of protean elusiveness with which they always take initiative and defeat the enemies. These are the true characteristics of the way of fighting of our People's Army, which is endowed with the spirit of Mt. Paekdu. The anti-Japanese partisan-style training method should be applied in the whole army and combat-readiness should be enhanced. Nobody in the world can match our revolutionary armed forces, which have grown under the three generals' care. In case imperialistic aggressors dare pounce upon us, the KPA will blow up their stronghold at one sweep and will accomplish the historic cause -- the reunification of our fatherland -- through a war of justice.

 Our people love peace, but we never beg it. All people should keep themselves in an alert and mobilized posture and accelerate production and construction with a rifle in one hand and a hammer or sickle in the other. Soldiers and people have to protect their fatherland and carry on socialist construction, unified as one.

 Great efforts should be made to firmly hold the idea of attaching great importance to science.

 It is the fixed stand of the WPK to construct socialism relying upon science. We can make great success in building socialism when a high-level revolutionary sense is backed up by science and technology.

 We should create an atmosphere of attaching great importance to science all over the country. Everybody has to have deep interest in the development of science and technology and to let scientists and technicians stand on the front line of society. All scientists and technicians should actively contribute to the development of science for our fatherland with their farseeing plans, desperate researches and pure conscience. We should put the Juche-based science and technology on the world's level in the shortest possible time and settle urgent scientific and technological problems in the building of a powerful nation. We should create our scientific and technological strength in a long-range view. We should timely introduce new results of research and technological innovations into production and make administrative reform in science and technology.

 Big efforts should be directed to socialist economic construction this year.

 Our economy is still in a difficult situation. Our struggle this year is a continuation of canter march and a struggle to make a leap forward in the building of an economically powerful nation. We should make an all-out charge to adorn a great festival in October in the same spirit that was displayed in the "arduous march" and forced march. We should work harder under the slogan "Let us all become heroes in a drive to glorify the 55th anniversary of the party foundation. Everyone should become a pacesetter in the second Chollima advance, working miracles following the torch held up by the workers of the Songjin Steel Works.

 The revolutionary economic policy advanced by Comrade Kim Jong Il serves as a militant banner for the building of a socialist economic power. The way we survive by ourselves in a siege of imperialism depends upon the Party's economic policy, and the key to raising the standard of people's living depends on the accomplishment of the Party's economic policy. We should support and carry out the Party's economic policy, following the spirit of the ten party members of Ragwon. We cannot rely on others, we have to boost our independent national economy step by step, which has been built with our blood and sweat, under the principle of self-reliance. It is important to thoroughly guarantee actual benefits in all sections of economic activities. Priority should be given to economic calculation. We should strengthen economization campaigns and improve the quality of products and buildings.

 Electric industries and coal industries are the outposts of socialist construction. We should raise fully the present capacity of power generation, promote the construction of large-scale hydroelectric power plants and medium and small-sized power plants at the same time and decisively increase the production of coal. We should fully enhance the production potential of metal industries and improve railway transportation. We should bring about a new upsurge in the production of people's consumer goods, raising a flame of revolution in the light industry. In agricultural sectors, we should thoroughly carry out Juche-style farming, which integrates farmers' unified will and whose justness has been proved. We should promote the seed revolution, a revolution in potato farming and double-cropping and raise livestock in large numbers. Fish breeding campaigns should be promoted on a mass scale. We should push ahead with land management including land re-zoning and forest planting and seeding programs.

 We should powerfully accelerate construction in important projects, including the construction of Pyongyang-Nampo Superhighway and Kaechon-Lake Taeson Watercourse, following the example of the spirit in which we recovered from the ruins after the Korean War. We should strengthen our Party's might, and the leading role of the Party should be heightened in every way in order to successfully fulfill this year's task.

 The WPK's guidance is the source of the invincibility of socialism of our style. If the party is strong and there are people who are faithful to the party's guidance, we will defeat any archenemies, and we will never be afraid of hundreds of "arduous marches."

 The Workers' Party of Korea is the heart of our society and is the general staff of the Korean revolution. We should protect the party's leading power in every way, which has been acquired and consolidated through our long revolutionary struggles. A fresh upswing should be brought about at all levels of the Party on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the WPK. We should powerfully wage the movement to follow the example of heroes of the present time and the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement to make the whole society seethe with revolutionary enthusiasm. All officials and members of the party should highly support the party's guidance in a firm belief that the party is precisely the leader. The youth should fulfil its mission as a reserve fighting unit and a detached force in a fruitful struggle to realize the party's great idea of socialist construction.

 We should intensify our struggle on a full-scale to establish Juche and apply nationality in our revolution and construction.

 Our style socialism is the socialism that loves our country and nation and is applied with Juche and Korean nationality. We should live in our own way, holding the banner of the "Korean nation is No. 1" policy, no matter what others say. We must smash imperialists' "globalization" maneuvers and defend the Korean style political system, economic structure and way of life. We should strengthen our struggle to establish Juche in every field including education, public health, literature and art, physical culture and bring about a new turn to fulfill the demand for the construction of a powerful nation. Our proper Korean language should be preserved in our life. We should highly bring our superior nationality to full play in our moral and cultural life.

We should start a struggle with our real ability both in name and reality this year.

 Comrade Kim Jong Il is a great person rarely seen in history who is equipped with real ability, and our revolutionary soldiers are the vanguard to build a powerful nation that supports the leader with its real ability. Whole thing depends on our loyalty and real ability. We should create a whirlwind in the whole of our country to enhance all our political and practical levels with a revolutionary zeal for study. Every worker should make preparations to become an ardent man of deep consideration, a master-hand of creation and a valiant commander like Comrade Kim Jong Il who carries through his purpose by making a detailed plan and daringly performs his work. A greater sense of responsibility is required for the fulfillment of the Party's policy.

 The spirit of Kanggy is a mighty fighting spirit for the improvement of real ability. We should carry through the Party's policy by enhancing our vigorous desire for work, our strong vitality and by creating the decent living condition of the Kanggy people. We should cover all country with revolutionary romanticism filled with songs and smiles.

 A strong will and a stubborn fight are required of us in the revolution that is still in an arduous state. All functionaries should make rapid progress in the year 2000 by vigorously expediting our victorious march as is sung in the military song of the Merited Chorus Group.

 Last year was a historic year in which our people made great progress in national reunification.

 In the reunification events of the fatherland such as '99 Grand Pro-Reunification Festival, Koreans in the north, south and oversees realized for the first time their solidarity and unity while the strong will of the Korean nation to reunification was also displayed. The mass movement of south Koreans for independence, democracy and reunification came to be strengthened more and more. In the long history of reunification events, it was shown that it was impossible to realize the independence and reunification of our fatherland by letting the imperialists as they are.

 Reunification is the only way for the Korean nation to live and be restored. We should make the year 2000 - on which falls the 55th anniversary of our country's liberation - a year of a new historic turn in our struggle for national reunification.

 Now the whole nation looks forward to a bright future of reunification in greatness of the Comrade Kim Jong Il. His dignity is absolute which strikes a fear into the anti-reunification elements. At the same time, it gives faith in victory to all the fellow countrymen. His virtue is so great that it can rally the whole nation irrespective of differences in ideology and ideal. All the nation should have confidence that the reunification depends entirely on Comrade Kim Jong Il.

 The Korean nation's aspiration for reunification should be realized under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Il in the same way as the Koreans endeavored to realize the liberation of the country under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung.

 The democratization of south Korea is the task of our era that can not be put off. It is unthinkable that our national reunification is realized without democracy. We should not tolerate any anti-reunification, anti-national movements in south Korea, which relay on the outside forces.

 The great unity of the entire nation is a prerequisite for the reunification of our country.

 It is a patriotic person who aspires for the "Great National Unity," while it is a traitor who obstructs it.

 All the Koreans at home and abroad should be united under the unfurled banner of the "Five Point Program for Great National Unity" laid down by the great leader Kim Jong Il irrespective of differences in ideology, ideal, religious belief, political view and social class and stratum.

 A master key to opening an epochal phase in national reunification is to firmly defend the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point program of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding a democratic confederal republic of Koryo, and struggle to put them into practice.

 All our fellow countrymen should make an effort to carry through the three principles of national reunification. Our national reunification is a historic demand and the struggle for it is the greatest act of patriotism for our fatherland.

 By beating all anti-reunification elements, all Koreans in the north, south and overseas will build a prosperous and powerful state in the near future. Due to the aggressive maneuvers by the imperialist forces, a tragic situation has been created so that the course of maintaining world peace and national sovereignty has been gravely obstructed. It is the unchangeable nature of the present imperialists that they unhesitatingly perpetrate the act of invading sovereign countries and undermine other countries from within.

 All our fellow countrymen should not be deceived by the deceptive logics of the imperialists who are crying for "peace" and "humanism."

We can clearly learn from the reality that we can defend our national sovereignty and our revolutionary achievements only when we fight against them with a resolute anti-imperialist spirit and when a Juche-based stand is firmly maintained.

 Our course of revolution is a just revolutionary one and our party is the guardian of justice. Our party will carry out our sacred international duty through its course of revolution and independence by upholding anti-imperialism.

 We are looking forward to a bright future, standing on the peak of this century.

 Comrade Kim Jong Il is on the frontline of the march to build a powerful state and the red banner brightened by the will of Comrade Kim Jong Il, which is powerfully flying high illumining our course to the future.

 Final victory will be in our hands and the year 2000 will be the arena of our action. We will vigorously step forward along the million-ri road to win a glorious victory following the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il like our army and people who made a million-ri arduous march under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung.

 Let all of us vigorously fight to realize the ultimate victory of socialism and carry out the task of building a powerful state.

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