Reports were made to be followed by speeches.

The reporters and speakers said that his New Year Address serves important guidelines which indicate the path to be followed by great Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea and a militant banner encouraging all service personnel and people in the general advance to open an epochal turn in building a thriving socialist country.

They underscored the need to push forward the production and construction, holding high the slogan "Let Us Bring About a Radical Turn in the Building of an Economic Giant with the Same Spirit and Mettle as Were Displayed in Conquering Space!"

They stressed the need to wage a dynamic drive for pushing back the frontiers of latest science and technology in warm response to the flames of the industrial revolution in the new century, promote the updating of production processes and give fullest play to the existing production capacity.

They called upon all people to fully display the indomitable mental power and make tangible contributions to building an economic giant and improving the standard of people's living under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.