The volume contains 42 works published by the Chairman in the period from August to December Juche 77 (1988).

The works deal with the principled issues in firmly establishing the revolutionary outlook on the leader among the officials, improving the system and method of Party work and bringing about great innovations in all fields of socialist construction.

Expounded in those works are the tasks and ways for scientists and technicians to achieve greater sci-tech successes with their redoubled efforts and put the country's machine industry on a world level.

Also, dealt with are the principled issues arising in providing the Korean people with modern dwelling houses, further raising the level of civilization in the dressing of working people, developing the light industry and sprucing up the public catering establishments in a hygienic and cultured way to afford convenience in Pyongyang citizens' everyday life.

Reflected in some of the works are the issues of properly embodying the Party's policy on inheriting and developing the national cultural heritage in opera and of establishing a proper system of guidance over the creative wok as required by the developing situation.

There are also works giving clear-cut answers to the theoretical and practical issues arising in all fields of the revolution and construction.