This year is of great significance in implementing the party's plan for building a thriving nation, the editorial says, and goes on:

Marshal Kim Jong Un unrolled a grandiose blueprint for the general advance for this year in his historic New Year address and powerfully aroused the entire party and army and all the people to a heroic advance.

He has energetically led the grand drive for building a thriving nation, always standing in the van of the ranks for general advance since the outset of the new year.

The army and people of the country intensely loyal to the party and the leader have waged an intensive charge since the beginning of this year's drive with extraordinary will and enthusiasm. They have fully demonstrated the might of the single-minded unity of the party and the revolutionary ranks that has been cemented in the general advance of the new century of Juche and Songun Korea's high stamina of courageously weathering all sorts of hardships and difficulties in the revolutionary spirit of Mt. Paektu. The vicious and persistent anti-DPRK moves of the U.S. imperialists and their followers could not hold in check the dynamic advance of the DPRK.

This year's drive proved once again that the ideology and strength of the DPRK are matchless and Korean style is the best and nothing can arrest the sacred cause of the Korean people dashing ahead to attain their grandiose ideal and goal.

The editorial calls on all people to thoroughly carry out the militant tasks set forth in the New Year address and thus become honorable victors in the general advance for this year.