The industrial workers, who have played a leading role in the effort for the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation, are a vanguard of the great upsurge in the motherland of Songun and a pillar for building a strong economy.

Believing in them with a high degree of revolutionary spirit and fortitude, the Workers' Party of Korea unfolded a grand plan for building a rich and powerful nation and is guiding them to successfully fulfill it.

The joint New Year editorial of the major newspapers of the DPRK calls on them to create a new speed of advance in the spirit of having concluded the 150-day and 100-day campaigns with success last year.

During the campaigns they made such tremendous achievements as introduction of CNC technology in machinery on a high level by themselves and establishment of a steel-making process based on Juche iron and a Juche-oriented production system of magnesia clinker.

Their strong sense of patriotism and loyalty to the leader and their spirit of working in their own way in reliance on their strength, which have been fully displayed in all economic sectors, constitute the source of a new speed to be created in this year's advance.

They, well aware that collective heroism is also a powerful potential for building a strong economy, are ready to give full play to it at all their working sites.

With belief that General Secretary Kim Jong Il's decision is precisely practice, they are striving hard to bring about great changes in the building of a thriving nation this year marking the 65th anniversary of the WPK