The work, published on Mar. 17, Juche 86 (1997), clarifies the important issues which would serve as guidelines for all the people to positively follow and embody the revolutionary soldier spirit symbolizing and representing the era of Songun.

The past more than decade since the publication of the work is a fruitful period in which the Korean people have grown strong in thinking and faith and mental power and victories and successes to be recorded in the national history have been achieved in the revolution and construction.

There is nothing impossible for the army and people of the DPRK as they are struggling, armed with the revolutionary soldier spirit. It is the precious review of the historic struggle waged over the past more than decade.

The people of the DPRK are now putting fresh spurs to the general offensive for the building of a thriving nation holding high the torch of the new great revolutionary surge kindled by Kim Jong Il.

Heavy and vast are the tasks to be fulfilled by the Korean people to open without fail the gate to the thriving nation in 2012 which will mark the centenary of birth of President Kim Il Sung.

It is necessary to give full play to the mental power of all the servicepersons and people, first of all, in order to successfully carry out those tasks. To this end, all fields and units should wage a more dynamic campaign to learn from the revolutionary soldier spirit than ever before. It is because of the revolutionary soldier spirit that the army and people of the DPRK fully display their dignity as possessors of powerful mental power in the era of Songun. This spirit serves as a main driving force of the new great revolutionary upswing.

The above-said spirit is the noble revolutionary spirit which helps the party members and other working people grow to be staunch fighters ready to devotedly defend the leader in the era of the great surge. It also serves as an ideological and moral source which encourages all the people to display their honor as those strong in the spirit of self-reliance as required by the era of the great surge. It is a precious ideological asset which helps the party members and other working people glorify their life as genuine revolutionaries in the era of the great upswing who live not for today but for tomorrow.