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Newspapers Call for Achieving Shining Victory in New Year's General Advance
Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Leading newspapers of the DPRK in their editorials Monday call on all people to achieve a shining victory in the general advance of the new year, true to the New Year Address made by respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

Noting the New Year Address made by Kim Jong Un serves as the militant banner giving spurs to a leap forward in the all-people general advance for stepping up the victorious advance of socialism, Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:

"Let us accelerate the victorious advance of socialism with the great spirit of self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force!"- this militant slogan reflects the unshakable faith of the Party to carry out the socialist cause of Juche started in Mt. Paektu to the end and the indomitable spirit of the people of the DPRK to fully demonstrate the validity of the cause of socialism and inevitability of its victory under the guidance of the great Party.

We should stage a bold struggle to put the overall economy of the country on a higher stage, consolidating the last year's victory in this year of key importance in carrying out the 5-year strategy for national economic development advanced by the Seventh Congress of the Party.

The tasks set forth by Kim Jong Un in his New Year Address serve as a militant banner for a victory in this year's all-out offensive.

They include the issue of attaching importance to science and technology and prioritizing them, the issue of letting the sectors of electricity, metallurgy and chemical industry take the lead in the general drive, the issue of making bigger progress in improving the standard of people's living by remarkably developing light industry, agriculture and fishing industry, the issue of making all sectors and units of the national economy attain this year's goals on all indices under the uplifted slogan of self-reliance and self-sufficiency and the issue of cementing the socialist political and military position more firmly.

All party members, service personnel and people should turn out as one in the new year's drive for thoroughly carrying out the militant tasks set forth by Kim Jong Un in his historic New Year Address and thus achieve a greater victory and turn the heyday of the revolution into an era of great prosperity.

Minju Joson also calls on all officials and other people to turn out as one in the new year's advance for bringing about a greater victory in the significant year that marks the 105th anniversary of birth of President Kim Il Sung and the 75th birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il, in hearty response to the militant tasks set forth in the New Year Address of Kim Jong Un.

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