Dear people and service
personnel of the People’s Army across the country,
Dear compatriots,
Dear comrades and friends,
Having seen out the year
2018, in which we adorned the history of the motherland, the revolution and the
nation with meaningful events leaving another indelible imprint in the history,
we are seeing in the new year 2019 full of hope.
As we see in the new year,
I extend heartfelt greetings to all the people and service personnel who
devoted their all for the cause of socialist construction sharing the same mind
and pace with our Party in the eventful days of last year, and wish that homes
across the country will brim with affection, hope and happiness.
My warm new year greetings
go also to the compatriots in the south and abroad, who shared our will in
writing a new history of reconciliation, unity, peace and prosperity of the
nation.
I wish success in the work
of heads of state and other foreign friends who are making efforts for social
progress and development and global peace and justice.
Comrades,
The year 2018 was a
historic year, in which remarkable changes took place in the internal and
external situations and our socialist construction entered a new stage thanks
to our Party’s line of independence and strategic decision.
The Third Plenary Meeting
of the Seventh Party Central Committee held in April last year constituted an
occasion of pivotal significance in developing our revolution onto a new stage
and continuing to speed up the advance of socialism on the basis of the great
victory of the line of promoting the two fronts simultaneously. Following the
road of arduous struggle with faith in certain victory of socialism, our people
provided by their own efforts a sure guarantee for defending their sovereignty
and achieving peace and prosperity, and became able to set out on a grand
revolutionary advance to attain still higher goals for the construction of a
prosperous country.
Thanks to our proactive
and positive efforts, a peace-oriented current was created on the Korean
peninsula and the international prestige of our Republic continued to be
raised, and in the midst of this we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the
founding of the glorious DPRK in splendour with great dignity and
self-confidence.
Through the celebratory
events held in September, the might of the DPRK, which achieved the ideological
oneness of the whole society and the single-hearted unity of the Party and the
people and which possesses a reliable self-supporting economy and self-reliant
defence capabilities, and the ardent will of the heroic Korean people to fight
to the end for the victory of the socialist cause were fully demonstrated in
front of the eyes of the world.
Last year all the people
further consolidated the foundations of the self-supporting economy by turning
out in the struggle for carrying out the Party’s new strategic line of
concentrating all efforts on economic construction.
Meaningful and valuable
advances were made in the struggle for implementing the line of making the
national economy Juche-oriented. The generation capacity of the Pukchang
Thermal Power Complex was increased remarkably, the Kim Chaek and Hwanghae iron
and steel complexes and other metallurgical works built on their successes in
establishing the Juche orientation in production, and dynamic efforts were made
to strengthen the independent foundations of the chemical industry. The quality
of various vehicles and light-industry products that give us pleasure at sight
as they were made by our efforts, technology and resources was raised to a
higher level and their mass production was realized, bringing delight to our
people.
The working class in the
coal-mining industry, in defence of the lifeline of the self-supporting economy,
conducted a do-or-die campaign for production when everything was in
difficulty, and the agricultural sector waged an unremitting struggle for
increased cereal production, thus producing a large number of high-yielding
units and farmers even in adverse weather conditions.
The munitions industry, in hearty response to our Party’s militant
call for concentrating all efforts on economic construction, produced a variety
of farm machinery, construction equipment, cooperative products and consumer
goods, thereby giving an impetus to economic development and the improvement of
the people’s living standards.
Last year the gigantic construction projects, geared to adding
glory to the era of the Workers’ Party according to the Party’s long-term plan
and operations, proceeded in a three-dimensional way and on a grand scale. This
demonstrated in reality the stout mettle of socialist Korea that
never flinches in the face of any adversity but achieves victory after victory
by surging forward more forcefully, as well as the inexhaustible potentials of
our independent economy.
True to the decision of the April Plenary Meeting of the Party
Central Committee on bringing about a revolutionary turn in science and
education, the sector of science and technology presented valuable research
findings conducive to accelerating the growth of hi-tech industries and
revitalizing the national economy; the efforts to make education modern and
scientific gained momentum, the teaching conditions and environment being
updated at many universities, colleges, middle and primary schools across the
country.
The sector of art and culture produced and staged a grand mass
gymnastics and artistic performance, evoking positive response from at home and
abroad and vividly showing the advanced level of Juche-oriented art and its
peculiar features and advantages.
Comrades,
Through the struggle of last year, which added a new page of proud
victory to the annals of our revolution, we have been convinced once again of
the validity of our own cause and the invincible strength of our state. Thanks
to our people’s indomitable fight against the challenge of injustice, our
state’s might of self-development has increased on a steady basis and the cause
of building a powerful socialist country is progressing at a faster pace.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I should like to extend my
heartfelt thanks, once again, to all the people including the service personnel
of the People’s Army for advancing non-stop along the road of victory indicated
by the Party and thus performing feats that will shine brilliantly in the
history of our country.
Comrades,
Having grown seasoned and powerful amid the struggle to glorify the
new era of the Juche revolution, our Party and people are launching the new
year march full of greater confidence and ambition.
This year we are faced with the task of expanding the country’s
capability of independent development to open up bright prospects for taking a
step forward towards socialist construction.
We have the strength and foundations to bring forward a brighter
future of socialism by our own efforts, and we have also developed our own
strategy and creative methods to this end. When we strive hard with an
indefatigable spirit on the principle of self-reliance by adhering to the Party’s
new strategic line, our country’s strength will redouble and our people’s
dreams and ideals will come true.
“Let us open a new road of
advance for socialist construction under the uplifted banner of
self-reliance!”–this is the slogan we should uphold. We should bring about a
revolutionary upsurge on all fronts of socialist construction by regarding
self-reliance as a treasured sword for prosperity, a spirit which has always
been a banner of struggle and driving force for a leap forward in the whole course
of the Korean revolution.
The might of the
independent socialist economy should be further strengthened.
We should rely on our own
technical forces and resources and the high creative spirit and revolutionary
enthusiasm of all the people so as to succeed in attaining the strategic goals
of national economic development and enter a new stage of growth.
We should properly plan
and thoroughly implement the national operations aimed at maintaining,
reinforcing and reenergizing the national economy as a whole.
Strategic measures should
be taken to give full play to the potentials of the self-supporting economy and
utilize the new elements and driving force for economic development, and the
manpower and material resources of the country should be enlisted in economic
construction in a cost-effective way. We should focus on the main link in the
national economic work, reenergize the other links of its whole chain and
promote the long-term development of the economy, so as to push forward its
revitalization.
The management method
should be innovated to satisfactorily realize the unified guidance of the state
over the overall economy and give fullest play to the voluntary enthusiasm and
creative abilities of the working people. The Cabinet and other state and economic
guidance organs should improve planning, pricing, and monetary and financial
management in line with socialist economic law and make sure that economic
levers have a positive effect on the revitalization of production and expanded
reproduction in enterprises. They should adjust the structures and system of
work to raise the efficiency of economic work and to make enterprises smoothly
conduct their business activities.
Talented personnel,
science and technology are our major strategic resources and weapons with which
to bring about a great leap forward in socialist construction.
The state should promote
talent training and sci-tech development purposefully and increase its
investment in them.
It is necessary to improve the quality of training talented personnel,
who will shoulder the socio-economic development, by improving the teaching
contents and methods in conformity with the world trend of developing education
and pedagogical requirements. We should set a high goal of developing new
technologies and concentrate our efforts on the research into core technologies
of great practical and economic significance, so as to secure the leading force
of economic growth. We should also take institutional measures so that
scientific research institutes and enterprises, in close cooperation, can boost
production and technological development and enhance intellectual creativity.
Every sector in the national economy should give impetus to hitting
the targets of the five-year strategy for national economic development.
We should direct primary efforts to relieving the shortage of
electricity to make a breakthrough in revitalizing the national economy.
One of the most important and pressing tasks in socialist economic
construction for this year is to radically increase the production of
electricity.
By focusing state investment on the electric-power industry to
maintain and reinforce its existing foundation and making maximum and effective
use of it to renovate and modernize one by one badly needed sectors and
projects, we can, for the present, raise power generation to the peak year
level.
We should take the problem of easing the strain on electricity as
an undertaking of the whole state, step up the construction of hydroelectric
power stations including Orangchon and Tanchon power stations and create a
capacity for generating tidal, wind and atomic power under a far-reaching plan.
Provinces, cities and counties should develop and utilize in an effective way
various energy sources available in their local areas.
The coal-mining industry is a primary front in developing the
self-supporting economy.
Only when coal is mass-produced can we resolve the problem of
electricity and satisfy the demand for fuel and power for different sectors of
the national economy including the metallurgical industry.
The coal-mining industry should channel efforts, first and
foremost, into supplying coal to thermal power stations so that they can
normalize electricity generation without letup.
The whole country should render active ideological and spiritual,
material and technical assistance to coal mines, and the state should take
stringent steps to provide in a responsible manner facilities and materials
needed for coal production and good living conditions for coal miners.
A greater development should be achieved in establishing the Juche
orientation in the metallurgical and chemical industries, the two pillars in
economic construction.
The metallurgical industry should lower production cost to the
minimum by perfecting the scientific and technological aspects of the
Juche-oriented iron- and steel-making processes and ensuring their normal
operation, and work out and implement an operations plan for providing them
with full amounts of iron ore, refractories and ferro-alloys to meet their
increased production capacity.
The chemical industry should step up the building of the phosphatic
fertilizer factory and the establishment of the C1 chemical industry, develop the
glauberite and synthetic fibre industries and convert the existing equipment and technical
processes into energy-saving and labour-saving ones. This year a nationwide
effort should be made to run the
chemical fertilizer factories at full capacity and boost production at the
February 8 Vinalon Complex.
Rail and other transport
sectors should launch an intensive campaign to strengthen discipline and
increase their carriage and traffic capacities to ease the strain on transport.
The machine-building industry should upgrade designing and processing
techniques to develop and produce a variety of modern machinery and equipment
in our own way to suit our actual conditions.
Improving the people’s
standard of living radically is a matter of greatest importance for our Party
and state.
The agricultural front,
the major point of attack in socialist economic construction, should conduct a
campaign for increased production.
The Cabinet and other
relevant sectors should give effective scientific and technical guidance for
each farming process and supply sufficient amounts of materials needed for this
year’s farming, thus increasing cereal production decisively. They should
respect the opinions and interests of farmers, masters of farming, and meet the
demands of the socialist principle of distribution properly.
It is necessary to adhere
to the four key factors set forth by the Party for the development of livestock
farming, modernize and reenergize stockbreeding bases like chicken farms, and
encourage the joint stockbreeding by cooperative farms and the sideline
stockbreeding by individual farmers so as to supply the people with more meat
and eggs.
The fishing sector should
consolidate its material and technical foundations, put fishing and aquatic
culture on a scientific basis and protect and increase aquatic resources, so as
to open a new path for developing the fishing industry.
The sector of light
industry, by consistently upholding the banner of modernizing production lines,
obtaining at home everything needed for production and improving quality,
should produce and supply various kinds of consumer goods that are favoured by
the people, and ensure that provinces, cities and counties renovate the
condiments factories and other locally-run plants and maintain their regular
operation by relying on the locally available raw materials and other resources.
This year, too, we should
push ahead, in a bold manner, with huge construction projects for national
prosperity and the people’s wellbeing.
The whole Party, the
entire army and all the people should turn out to transform Samjiyon County
into a model of modern mountainous city, an ideal socialist village, and
complete on the highest possible level the construction projects that would
represent the present era, including the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area and
other new tourist areas. It is important to steadily improve architectural
designing and construction methods, and ensure domestic production and better
quality of finishing materials, so as to build all the architectural structures
magnificently and in our own style and provide our people with a cultured,
happy life. With the national-level construction projects underway on an
extensive scale, we should build up the capacity of producing cement and other
building materials as planned.
We should make proactive
efforts to implement the tasks for the second stage of the forest restoration
campaign, improve landscaping, urban management and road administration, and
take every precaution against environmental pollution.
All sectors and all units
should fulfil their quotas of the national economic plan in all its indices by
identifying and enlisting every last reserve, possibility and potential and by
increasing production and practising economy.
The politico-ideological strength of our socialist state should be
increased in every way possible.
It is necessary to unite the broad sections of the masses solidly
around the Party by thoroughly applying the Juche-oriented view on the people,
a people-oriented philosophy, in Party and state activities.
Party and government organs and working people’s organizations
should give top and absolute priority to the people’s interests whatever they
plan and whatever they conduct; they should lend an ear to their sincere
opinions, prioritize their wants and anything beneficial to them, and strive to
translate them into reality without any conditions attached. Anywhere, anytime
and under any circumstances, they should make selfless, devoted efforts for the
good of the people, direct primary attention to their livelihood, and ensure
that everybody benefits from the politics of affection and trust, the one of
embracing and taking care of them all. They should intensify the struggle to
eradicate both serious and trivial instances of abuse of power, bureaucratism
and corruption, which would wreak havoc on the harmonious whole of the Party
and the masses and undermine the socialist system.
However the situation and circumstances may change, Party members
and all other working people should cherish the principle of our state first as
an element of their faith and step up socialist economic construction in our
own way. They should glorify the country’s great history by working with
sincere devotion and a patriotic desire for developing their homeland by their
own efforts before the eyes of the world, the precious land of socialism which
they have defended from generation to generation.
We should accelerate the
building of socialist civilization.
A revolutionary habit of
studying and a way of cultural and emotional life should be established
throughout society, so that all the people possess versatile knowledge and
cultural attainments as required by the developing times. The sector of art and
literature should create splendid works including films and songs that reflect
the times and reality and touch the people’s heartstrings, thus enriching the
spiritual and cultural wealth of the nation and giving a powerful impetus to
today’s grand revolutionary march.
We should ensure that all
the people realize the advantages of the socialist public health system by
modernizing pharmaceutical and medical appliance factories, upgrading medical
institutions and raising the level of medical service. Mass-based sporting
activities should be conducted briskly and specialized sporting techniques
developed to ensure that the whole country brims over with vigour and optimism
and the sportspeople continue to demonstrate the wisdom and might of Koreans in
international competitions.
We should launch a
powerful drive to establish a socialist way of life and ennobling moral
discipline, thus ensuring that no immoral and uncultured practices that run
counter to our people’s emotions and aesthetic view are revealed. By doing so,
we can turn the whole society into a large, harmonious family filled with moral
excellence and tender feelings.
The national defence capability
should be solidified.
The People’s Army should
reliably defend the Party and revolution and the security of the country and
the people and continuously perform miraculous feats at all sites of socialist
construction as in the past by consistently holding fast to the four-point
policy for developing it into a powerful army. By doing so, it should
demonstrate to the full the might of the revolutionary army, the invincible
might of the army of our Party.
The Korean People’s
Internal Security Forces, as befitting the red shield of the revolution, should
defend unto death our Party, system and people, and the Worker-Peasant Red
Guards should effect a turn in strengthening its combat efficiency in this year
of its 60th founding anniversary.
Powerful self-defence
capacity is a cornerstone of the existence of a state and a guarantee for
safeguarding peace.
The munitions industry
should, on the one hand, steadily raise the national defence capacity to that
of the world’s advanced countries by stepping up the effort for making the
defence industry Juche-based and modern, therefore guaranteeing the peace on
the Korean peninsula by force of arms, and, on the other, should actively
support economic construction.
In order to successfully
carry out the militant tasks facing us this year, officials, leading members of
the revolution, should make redoubled efforts and struggle with determination
and courage.
It is none other than the masses of the people that constitute
the motive force and are responsible for carrying out Party policy, and they
know actual conditions better than anybody else. Officials should always
immerse themselves in the pulsating reality, seeing everything with their own
eyes and conducting a comprehensive analysis of how matters stand; they should go
deep among the masses, sharing board and lodging with them and motivating them
to resolve bottlenecks if any. They should set their ideals and ambitions in
keeping with the Party’s plans, and steadily improve their practical abilities
and widen their horizon; in this way they should become competent organizers
and hands-on workers who make persistent efforts to achieve everything
perfectly at the standard demanded by the Party. They should throw themselves
into doing any challenging task, burn the midnight oil pondering on how to
bring benefit to the country and people, and find the worth of their work in
the people’s happy laughter.
Today young people should play a large part in promoting
socialist construction.
With the same spirit and mettle which they displayed in recent
years to create legendary tales of the new era in response to the Party’s
militant appeal, they should honour their title of vanguard at the
revolutionary posts where the Party wants them to be. In the present stirring
era they should become pioneers of new technology, creators of new culture and
pathfinders for a great leap forward; they should make sure that youthful
vigour and stamina are overflowing wherever they work.
It is needed to decisively
increase the role of Party organizations.
Party organizations at all
levels should conduct political and ideological work in a progressive manner in
line with the requirements of the times and the developing revolution in order
to make our people give full play to the strength of their indomitable spirit
on all fronts of socialist construction. They should give a boost to
administrative and economic officials so that they can map out plans and
provide guidance for implementing Party policy in a responsible way, and fire a
zeal for collective innovation and competition in their sectors and units.
Provincial, city and county
Party committees should
wage a powerful struggle to bring about a turn in the development of farming,
education and local industries.
Comrades,
Last year was a stirring
year which witnessed a dramatic change unprecedented in the history of national
division spanning over 70 years.
With a determination to
usher in an era of national reconciliation, peace and prosperity by putting an
end to the abnormal state on the Korean peninsula which had suffered a constant
war crisis, we took proactive and bold measures to effect a great turn in
north-south relations from the outset of last year.
It is unprecedented that
three rounds of inter-Korean summit meetings and talks were held in a year amid
great expectations and interest of peoples at home and abroad, and this clearly
showed that north-south relations entered a completely new stage.
The Panmunjom Declaration,
the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration and the north-south agreement in the
military field, which were adopted by reflecting the firm resolve and will to
usher in an era of peace in which war exists no longer on the Korean peninsula,
are of great significance as a virtual nonaggression declaration in which north
and south have committed themselves to terminating fratricidal war based on
force of arms.
While sportspersons of
north and south displayed the wisdom and strength of the nation by jointly
entering international competitions, artistes came and went to Pyongyang
and Seoul to
fire the enthusiasm for national reconciliation and reunification.
We took the significant
first step towards common prosperity of the nation by promoting cooperation
projects in various fields including railways, road, forestry and public health
while resolutely overcoming manifold obstacles and difficulties.
The surprising changes
which took place in inter-Korean relations last year convinced all the fellow
countrymen that when they join minds and efforts, they can turn the Korean
peninsula into the true home of the nation, which is the most peaceful and will
prosper forever.
Though it was the initial
step, north and south pooled intentions and wisdom to surely reverse
inter-Korean relations in the utmost extremes of distrust and confrontation to
those of trust and reconciliation and make in a short time eye-opening
achievements which were unimaginable in the past. I am very satisfied with
that.
In the New Year 2019 we
should make greater strides in our efforts to boost inter-Korean relations, achieve
peace and prosperity and reunify the country on the basis of the priceless
achievements we made last year which was wonderfully adorned with unprecedented
events.
All the nationals should
hold high the slogan “Let us usher in a heyday of peace, prosperity and
reunification of the Korean peninsula by thoroughly implementing the historic
north-south declarations!”
It is our steadfast will
to eradicate military hostility between north and south and make the Korean
peninsula a durable and lasting peace zone.
North and south, as they
agreed, should take practical measures proactively to remove military hostility
on the whole of the Korean peninsula, including the ground, airspace and sea,
as a follow-up to its ending in the areas of confrontation.
Given that north and south
committed themselves to advancing along the road of peace and prosperity, we
maintain that the joint military exercises with foreign forces, which
constitute the source of aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula,
should no longer be permitted and the introduction of war equipment including
strategic assets from outside should completely be suspended.
It is also needed to
actively promote multi-party negotiations for replacing the current ceasefire
on the Korean peninsula with a peace mechanism in close contact with the
signatories to the armistice agreement so as to lay a lasting and substantial
peace-keeping foundation.
All the fellow countrymen
should unite as one, being conscious that the master of peace on the peninsula
is our nation, in order to wage a powerful struggle to check and frustrate all
the moves that wreck peace and incite military tension on this land.
Inter-Korean cooperation
and exchanges should be expanded and developed in an all-round way so that
national reconciliation and unity can be consolidated and all the fellow
countrymen can practically benefit from improved north-south relations.
For the present, we are
willing to resume the Kaesong Industrial Park and Mt Kumgang tourism without any
precondition and in return for nothing, in consideration of the hard conditions
of businesspersons of the south side who had advanced into the Kaesong Industrial Park and the desire of
southern compatriots who are eager to visit the nation’s celebrated mountain.
When north and south join
hands firmly and rely on the united strength of the fellow countrymen, no
external sanctions and pressure, challenges and trials will be able to hinder
us in our efforts to open a broad avenue to national prosperity.
We will never tolerate the
interference and intervention of outside forces who stand in the way of
national reconciliation, unity and reunification with the design to subordinate
inter-Korean relations to their tastes and interests.
North and south should not
pass up the favourable atmosphere of today when all the nationals’ interest in
and aspiration for reunification are growing unprecedentedly, but actively try
to find a peaceful reunification plan based on nationwide agreement and direct
sincere efforts to this end.
All the fellow countrymen
in north, south and abroad should further accelerate in high spirits the
nationwide advance for implementing the north-south declarations, and thus
glorify this year as a historic one when another radical change is brought
about in the development of inter-Korean relations and implementation of the
cause of national reunification.
Comrades,
Last year, our Party and
the government of our Republic exerted responsible efforts to safeguard the
peace and security of the world and expand and strengthen friendship with
different countries.
The three rounds of our
visit to the People’s Republic of China and the Cuban delegation’s
visit to our country were remarkable events in boosting strategic communication
and traditional ties of friendship and cooperation among the socialist
countries.
Last year, frequent visits
and exchanges were made on Party, state and government levels between the DPRK
and many countries of the world, with the result that they deepened mutual
understanding and confirmed the stand and will to promote sound development of
the international community.
The historic, first-ever
DPRK-US summit meeting and talks brought about a dramatic turn in the bilateral
relationship which was the most hostile on the earth and made a great contribution
to ensuring peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the region.
It is the invariable stand
of our Party and the government of our Republic and my firm will to establish a
new bilateral relationship that meets the demand of the new era as clarified in
the June 12 DPRK-US Joint Statement, build a lasting and durable peace regime
and advance towards complete denuclearization.
Accordingly, we declared
at home and abroad that we would neither make and test nuclear weapons any
longer nor use and proliferate them, and we have taken various practical
measures.
If the US responds to our
proactive, prior efforts with trustworthy measures and corresponding practical
actions, bilateral relations will develop wonderfully at a fast pace through
the process of taking more definite and epochal measures.
We have no intention to be
obsessed with and keep up the unsavoury past relationship between the two
countries, but are ready to fix it as early as possible and work to forge a new
relationship in line with the aspirations of the two peoples and the
requirements of the developing times.
As evidenced by the
reality of north-south relations that made rapid progress last year, nothing is
impossible to a willing heart, and dialogue partners will reach the destinations
that are beneficial to each other without fail if they put forward fair
proposals on the principle of recognizing and respecting each other by
abandoning their dogged insistence broadmindedly and conduct negotiations with
a proper stand and the will to settle issues.
I want to believe that our
relations with the United
States will bear good fruit this year, as
inter-Korean relations have greeted a great turn, by the efforts of the two
sides.
I am of the opinion that,
while meeting and holding talks beneficial to both sides with the US president
in June last year, we exchanged constructive views and reached a consensus of
understanding for a shortcut to removing each other’s apprehensions and
resolving the entangled problems.
I am ready to meet the US president
again anytime, and will make efforts to obtain without fail results which can
be welcomed by the international community.
But if the United States
does not keep the promise it made in the eyes of the world, and out of
miscalculation of our people’s patience, it attempts to unilaterally enforce
something upon us and persists in imposing sanctions and pressure against our
Republic, we may be compelled to find a new way for defending the sovereignty
of the country and the supreme interests of the state and for achieving peace
and stability of the Korean peninsula.
The stabilized situation
on the Korean peninsula and in the region is never something that has been
created with ease, and the countries that are truly desirous of peace have the
common responsibility for setting great store by the current situation. The
neighbouring countries and international community have to support our sincere
stand and efforts for promoting the positive development of the situation on
the Korean peninsula and fight against all practices and challenges that wreck
peace and run counter to justice.
Our Party and the
government of our Republic will continue to bolster up unity and cooperation
with the socialist countries and develop relations with all countries that are
friendly to us under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship.
Comrades,
We are beginning the
journey of the new year as we brace ourselves once again with the resolve to
work devotedly for our country, our motherland, and the happier laughter of
younger generations.
What we are convinced of
once again as we proudly review the past year when we made rapid progress while
paving our way by our own efforts with belief in our own strength in the face
of harsh economic blockade and sanctions, is the truth that our state is fully
capable of dynamically advancing along the road of development of socialism of
our own style by dint of our people’s great strength and efforts, without any
external assistance or any other’s help.
This year, too, we will
face constant obstacles and challenges in our progress, but no one can change
our determination and will and stop our vigorous advance and our people will
successfully achieve their beautiful ideals and goals without fail.
Let us all work
energetically and with one mind and will for the prosperity and development of
the genuine people’s country, the socialist motherland.
