The joint editorial was read out and speeches were made there.

Ramon Jimenez Lopez, president of the above-said committee, said that the joint editorial serves as an important work as it clearly reflects leader Kim Jong Il's grandiose plan for building a great prosperous and powerful nation and the strategy and ways to implement it.

Juan Campos Vega, chairman of the above-said institute, expressed belief that the Korean people would accelerate the development of the light industry once again this year and thus bring about a decisive change in the improvement of the people's standard of living and the building of a great prosperous and powerful nation.