Thanks to the General Secretary, a great master of thought and theory who has illuminated the road ahead of the country and the people with the most revolutionary and scientific ideas and lines, this meaningful year has seen great turns and changes, the article says, and goes on:

It was the steadfast will of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to build a decisive guarantee for fulfilling the five-year plan and accelerate the overall development of our style of socialism by further stepping up the all-people struggle to open up a new phase in socialist construction this year of vital significance in carrying out the five-year plan set forth by the Eighth Party Congress.

As there were the development-oriented lines and policies of the Party Central Committee characterized by dynamic, attractive and scientific features, this year's advance was able to be vigorously propelled along the correct path from the beginning despite such difficult and complex circumstances.

This year, our Republic has more powerfully demonstrated its dignity and national power to the world and made multiple miraculous achievements to be specially recorded in the country's history.

The revolutionary idea of the Party Central Committee brought about a new leap in the struggle for the state's prosperity and put our national power and prestige on the absolute height.

This year's astonishing entities, which represent the development potentials and level of civilization of our state and are well received and welcomed by the people, are an outcome of the people-first idea and ardent love for the people of our Party that devotes itself to promoting their wellbeing.

It is the unshakable faith kept in the hearts of all the people that victory is in store for them as there are the WPK's great revolutionary idea and its most correct lines and policies.

In this meaningful year, the revolutionary idea of the respected General Secretary became the will, aspiration and firm faith of the people and served as a tremendous motive power for national development, thus bringing brilliant successes.