Rodong Sinmun Monday observes this in a jointly signed article.

It goes on:

Noticeable changes unprecedented in recent years have taken place in socialist construction in the DPRK this year.

The workers in the field of metal industry, a pillar of the socialist self-supporting economy, have achieved leaping progress in production in hearty response to the torch kindled in Kangson.

Keeping pace with this, not only those in the field of coal industry but those in the field of power industry are boosting the production with each passing day and those in the domain of machine-building industry are working fresh miracles.

The scientific and technological revolution is gaining in scope and strength thanks to the above-said great advance.

The drive for bringing about miracles and innovations is going full steam ahead not only in the heavy industry but in the light industry and the agricultural field. The same can be said of the centrally controlled industrial establishments and locally controlled industrial ones.

All industrial establishments, be they big enterprises or small factories, and the units with favorable conditions or with unfavorable ones set ambitious goals and are now honoring their assignments.

A great surge is now being effected in the literary and art, sports, education and public health, land administration and city management and other fields. Masterpieces are being produced thanks to a signal turn being effected in the movie industry in the era of Songun and spectacular successes are being registered to create sensation in the world sports circles. All these achievements are greatly delighting the Korean people.

The nation is witnessing a stirring reality in which it is taking on the looks of a thriving nation in all aspects ranging from the ideological aspect to economic life and from the appearance of streets and villages to people's style of dressing and diet.

The DPRK's goal to open the gate to a thriving nation in 2012 is scientific and it is sure to triumph.

Kim Il Sung's nation led by Kim Jong Il has an invincible banner, tremendous mental power and solid military and economic foundations and potentials which no other countries and nations have ever possessed.