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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Dynamic Drive for Increased Production

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The ongoing drive for increased production in all fields and units of the national economy is a movement of loyalty and grand march of self-reliance and self-development to successfully carry the Party's idea and determination into reality, consolidate the foundation of self-supporting economy and successfully attain the grand goal for building an economic power by surely attaining the five-year strategy goals for national economic development set forth by the Party, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in an article.

Noting that to wage the dynamic drive for increased production for attaining the five-year strategy goals is the urgent requirement to consolidate the foundation of the self-supporting economy and improve the standard of people's living and bring the final victory of socialism earlier, the article goes on:

Now we have favorable conditions for concentrating all potentialities of manpower, material and technology on the economic construction. If we vigorously wage the drive for increased production to unconditionally attain the five-year strategy goals in time, a rosy prospect for the building of an economic power will be opened.

The main purpose of building a powerful socialist nation is to provide the people with an affluent and highly civilized life. To improve the standard of people's living is the very important task facing our Party in which devoted service for the people is the mode of existence and the revolutionary climate.

We should wage the high-pitched drive for increased production for practical progress in improving the standard of people's living as intended by the Party and make the ongoing drive an occasion of revolutionary turn in the history of building a powerful socialist nation.