The appeal expressed full support for the line of the Workers' Party and the government of Korea to vigorously wage a general offensive to bring about a decisive turn in improving the standard of people's living and building a thriving nation this year and achieve the country's peaceful reunification free from any foreign interference.

The appeal expressed bitter resentment at the U.S. instigating the south Korean authorities to push the inter-Korean relations to collapse.

It expressed belief that the Korean People's Army fully prepared politically and ideologically and in military technique and loyal to its people as it holds Kim Jong Il as its supreme commander will deal irrevocable blows at the aggressors.

It called upon the progressive political parties and public organizations of Russia to extend positive support and solidarity to the Korean people in their just struggle.