The work is a very important document to be taken firmly in successfully carrying forward and completing the cause of building a socialist state of Juche pioneered by President Kim Il Sung.

Kim Jong Il reviewed with great pride the 60-year-long history of the DPRK which had covered the road of brilliant victory under the guidance of President Kim Il Sung and the great Party and clarified the popular and independent character and invincible might of the DPRK which embodies the Juche idea in the state building and activities.

The DPRK's history is one of great struggle and victory, creation and change in which the sovereignty and honor of the country have been defended with credit and a prosperous and powerful socialist nation has been constructed under the leadership of the Party and the leader.

The army and people of the DPRK have created historic miracles, going through unprecedented trials and difficulties in the acute confrontation with the imperialist aggressive forces from the first period of building a new country to the present time of building a thriving socialist nation.

Now the cause of building a socialist state of Juche is at a new turning point of history in the DPRK.

Thanks to the Songun politics of Kim Jong Il, an embodiment of the President's Juche idea and Songun revolutionary leadership exploits, the DPRK is demonstrating its dignity all over the world as an invincible socialist country powerful in political and military realms and a great innovation and change are taking place on the economic and cultural sectors amid the flame of a new revolutionary upsurge.

The successful launch of the artificial satellite "Kwangmyongsong-2" is a great event which demonstrated to the world once again the proud might of the Juche-based space science and technology which have developed swiftly and the tremendous power of the DPRK rushing ahead towards the thriving nation.

Many gigantic edifices including the Wonsan Youth Power Station and the Ryesonggang Youth Power Station No. 1 have been constructed and the modernization of production process has been vigorously pushed ahead in the metal industry and other major economic sectors amid the full display of the inexhaustible mental power and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, thus laying a solid foundation for the epochal development of the socialist independent economy and the improvement of the people's living.

Many musical art pieces of new style were created as required by the new century.

All the army and people of the DPRK will give fuller play to its dignity and might by implementing the ideology and theory advanced by Kim Jong Il in the work.