It goes on:

Making this year a year of leap forward and victory by dint of science and technology is a sacred drive for giving full play to the dignity and invincible spirit of the great Paektusan nation.

All fields and units should achieve greater scientific and technological successes on the basis of the achievements already made. Herein lies a sure guarantee for glorifying Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea as an invincible power before the world.

The field of science and technology should more fully display courage and guts to surpass the world standard and extraordinary spirit and creative enthusiasm for going beyond the cutting edge.

It is necessary to wage a dynamic drive for carrying out the strategy and goal for scientific and technological development set forth by the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

The scientists and technicians should deepen scientific researches for augmenting the might of the self-supporting national economy remarkably and introduce the research achievements to practice in good time.

They should vigorously steer the advance of the times and creditably fulfill their responsibilities and roles in order to make this year a year of leap forward and victory.

It is necessary to establish the climate of attaching importance to science and technology and sincerely supporting the field of science throughout the society.

All fields and units should make it an iron rule to solve any problem by dint of science and technology.

The determination of the WPK to attach utmost importance to science and technology and usher in the era of prosperity of Songun Korea with the might of Juche-oriented science and technology means practice and victory.