This line is to develop defense industry preferentially while developing light industry and agriculture simultaneously.

Its essential characteristics lie in that it is the most revolutionary and popular line of economic construction which makes it possible to defend the dignity of the country and the nation, adhere to socialism and, at the same time, provide the people with a bountiful and cultural life in compliance with the demands of the Songun era.

It is not a line different from the basic line of socialist economic construction on developing heavy industry preferentially while developing light industry and agriculture simultaneously, but its continuity and development.

Defense industry is inseparably linked with heavy industry.

Defense industry is based on heavy industry and its development is unthinkable apart from the development of the latter.

And the development of defense industry leads to the development of heavy industry.

When defense industry develops, up-to-date science and technology in this field find their way to various fields of the national economy including heavy industry and demands for heavy industrial products grow rapidly and this stimulates the development of heavy industry.

The new line of economic construction in the Songun era is, in the final analysis, one which successfully applied the basic line of socialist economic construction of the past days at a new height by taking it over and carrying it forward to suit the demands of Songun era and a bold and gigantic line of economic construction which makes it possible to achieve a great leap and a tremendous change hitherto unknown in the revolution and construction.