Poets of the Central Committee of the Korean Writers Union have written many poems strongly appealing to the hearts of all the people from the first days of the new year out of the desire to glorify this year as a year of a new revolutionary upsurge, sounding the bugle of general advance.

"Motherland, forward in the general advance!", "Flaming Glow over Kangson", "Soldiers stand at frontal breakthrough for general offensive", "Our flames", "It's time for our strength to erupt" and "Ye youth, flare up" and other poems reflect the realities sensitively and are overflowing with strong appeal and militancy. They powerfully inspire the working people in the gigantic work for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

Poets who greeted the morning of the New Year in Kangson, a historic land, watched the thrilling scene of the flow of molten iron from the UHP electric arc furnace of Korean-style and wrote the stirring poems "Torchlight in Kangson", "Leap higher, ye flames of upsurge" and "He came in December", which inflame the hearts of the smelters with the ardor of creation and leap forward in making a breach on the main front of economic power.

They rushed to production sites aflame with a new revolutionary upswing such as the Pyongyang Thermal-power Complex and the Pyongyang Textile Mill where they wrote "The first step in the new year", "Familiar faces" and "You are like heroine Ri Hwa Sun" and many other poems pulsating with the breath of the Songun era and giving a profound philosophical rendition to the socialist life.