The hearts of the working class and the agricultural working people are beating violently in the raging flames of the new revolutionary upsurge kindled by General Secretary Kim Jong Il when he visited the workers of Kangson.

Having tested the greatness of their strength in the practical activities last year, the workers of Kangson are working miracles in iron and steel production from the first days of the new year, bracing themselves up.

Power production bases including the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex and the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex are mustering all forces available to reduce coal unloading and wagon stopping time while raising the scientific and technical efficiency of boilers to the maximum so that all the factories of the country may be kept in full-capacity operation and people may benefit more by electricity.

The workers of the Musan Mining Complex displayed in a blast of 150,000 cubic meters of earth on the first day of the new year their unshakable faith and will to record heroic feats from day to day in the general march of the Songun revolution in the same spirit and fortitude with which the great Chollima upsurge was brought about in the postwar period under the militant slogan "Charge at the Speed of Chollima!"

Agricultural working people in charge of the nation's granaries are reporting innovative achievements every day in farming preparations of the new year, transporting quantities of compost to the paddy and non-paddy fields, with an unusual determination to solve the food problem at any cost by their own efforts.

Now the working people across the country, keeping in mind the militant calls put forward in the joint editorial this year, are filled with a single purpose in mind to display the advantages of the socialist self-supporting economy to the full by making a great innovation and a great leap never known in the nation's history with a general advance of Chollima.