2015 is a very significant year for the north as it will mark the 70th anniversaries of Korea's liberation and the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, the editorial said, and went on:

First Chairman of the National Defence Commission Kim Jong Un in his New Year address called upon the people to display the revolutionary spirit and mettle of Paektu to scathingly thwart the challenges and maneuvers by hostile forces and score a signal success in the struggle to defend socialism and on all fronts of building a thriving nation and thus celebrate the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and the founding of the Party as revolutionary, auspicious events.

The Korean people are determined to become the honorable victors in the general offensive for defending the dignity of the socialist country and achieving prosperity by dint of ideology and arms, science and technology in the revolutionary spirit and mettle of Paektu.

The Korean people out in hearty response to Kim Jong Un's New Year address will glorify this significant year, the 70th anniversaries of Korea's liberation and the founding of the WPK, as a year of great victory, a year of the revolutionary, auspicious events.

Kim Jong Un in his New Year address set forth "Let the whole nation join efforts to open up a broad avenue to independent reunification in this year of the 70th anniversary of national liberation!", the fighting slogan the entire Korean nation should put up, and indicated the tasks to be carried out in the movement for national reunification this year.

The editorial said that all the Koreans hope that an epochal occasion for national reunification would be provided this year marking the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation.