The President in the work clarified the position and importance of the physical culture and sports and put forth the tasks to develop the sports work into an all-people movement.

He noted that it is an important issue of deciding on the rise and fall of a country to develop sports activities extensively and make all the people strong, stressing that it is imperative to improve the physical strength of the people as a whole for accelerating the socialist construction and for strengthening national defence.

He also underlined that the schools, all the organs, enterprises, cooperative farms and families should organize sports activities and increase physical strength of the people.

In the past period, the Korean people have made proud successes in all fields of sports including popular sports and athletes exalted the honor of the country in international tournaments.

Many mass sports events are organized annually including the National Sports Contest of Workers, the National Folk Sports Contest of Agricultural Workers, the Paektusan Prize Sports Contest among Officials of National Institutions and the National Schoolchildren's Sports Contest for Jongilbong Prize through which the strong will and noble spirit of collectivism are displayed to the full and the validity and vitality of the Workers' Party of Korea's policy of making sports mass-based and an inseparable part of life demonstrated clearly.

The Kim Il Sung Stadium, the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, the Ice Rink, sports gymnasiums in Chongchun Street and other well-arranged sports facilities have been built across the country and stadiums, gymnasiums, swimming pools and others constructed in provinces, cities and counties so that working people and school youth and children are taking an active part in the physical culture and sports activities.

The mass sports activities will make a positive contribution to preparing all the Korean people for labor and defence and to developing the sports technique of the country.