Pyongyang,
January 1 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party
of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK
and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, made a New Year
address for 2015.
The following is its full text:
Dear comrades!
Having seen out 2014, a year in which we clearly demonstrated the
spirit and might of the great DPRK that advances by leaps and bounds
with confidence in victory, we are seeing in the hope-filled new year
2015.
Reflecting the boundless loyalty of all the service
personnel and people, I would like to pay the highest tribute and offer
New Year greetings to President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, the
eternal leaders of our people and the sun of Juche.
I extend
New Year greetings to the service personnel and people who are striving
with devotion for the dignity and prosperity of the country with
revolutionary faith and patriotic enthusiasm, and I wish the families
throughout the country would overflow with warm affection and our lovely
children would have a brighter future.
My New Year greetings go
also to the compatriots in the south and abroad who are fighting for
national concord and reunification and to the progressive peoples of the
world and other foreign friends who aspire after independence and
peace.
Last year was a year of brilliant triumph in which the
foundations for hastening final victory on all fronts of building a
thriving nation were consolidated firmly and the invincible might of the
DPRK was demonstrated under the leadership of the Party.
Last
year the harmonious whole of the Party and the masses of the people was
solidified and the purity and might of the revolutionary ranks
strengthened.
The ardent yearning of our service personnel and
people for the President and the General became intenser as the days
went by and they fully manifested their passionate loyalty and pure
sense of moral obligation to translate into reality the great leaders'
plans and wishes.
Our Party's politics of love for the people
and younger generation and its policy of attaching importance to science
and education were embodied in reality and thereby the people's trust
in the Party deepened and our single-hearted unity hardened. Amid the
drive for carrying on education in revolutionary traditions through the
study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt. Paektu area, the
entire army and the whole society came to pulsate with the spirit and
mettle of Paektu and bubble with the conviction and will to carry
through the sacred revolutionary cause of Juche.
Last year the
fighting efficiency of the People's Army was increased remarkably and
national defence capability was built up.
As the army conducted
political and ideological work in a positive manner and stoked the
flames of training under combat conditions, all its officers and men and
units of services and arms became strong in ideas and faith and
prepared as an invincible army capable of discharging operational and
combat missions proficiently in any circumstances and conditions.
Iron military discipline was established in the entire army and
unprecedented successes were made in the improvement of soldiers'
living. The defence industry sector developed and completed various
means of military strike of our style to make a tangible contribution to
the qualitative growth of the revolutionary armed forces.
Last
year we made great progress in the building of a socialist economic
giant and civilized nation by the joint operation of the army and
people.
Even in the difficult situation and adverse conditions
last year, an upswing was brought about in production in different
sectors including agriculture, fishery and chemical and coal-mining
industries, opening up bright prospects for the building of an economic
giant and improvement of the people's living standards.
The
construction sector kindled the fierce flames for creating the Korean
speed to build many monumental structures that serve as standards and
models of Juche-oriented architecture including the Wisong Scientists
Dwelling District, apartment houses for lecturers of Kim Chaek
University of Technology, Yonphung Scientists Holiday Camp and October 8
Factory, thereby actually demonstrating the looks of the DPRK that is
realizing its beautiful ideals.
The service personnel who
engaged in the building of a thriving country achieved breakthroughs in
production, construction and modernization and created excellent model
units in the spirit of devotedly implementing the Party's policies and
the spirit of match-for-a-hundred combatants.
Our sportspeople
undauntedly fought by our own style of tactics in the 17th Asian Games
and world championships to exalt the honour of the country and greatly
encourage the service personnel and people who were out in the struggle
to defend socialism.
All the victories and priceless successes
we achieved last year are a brilliant result of the Party's wise
leadership and of the burning patriotic loyalty and self-sacrificing
struggle of all the service personnel and people rallied firmly behind
the Party.
I extend heartfelt thanks to all the service
personnel and people who made a contribution to glorifying last year as a
year of proud feats and changes by waging an unyielding struggle with a
steadfast faith in the revolutionary cause of Juche and the
revolutionary cause of Songun.
Comrades!
The new year
2015 will be a year of great significance, in which we will mark the
70th anniversaries of national liberation and founding of the Workers'
Party of Korea.
Greeting this significant year, our people are
looking back with great pride and dignity upon the glorious 70-year
history of our Party and homeland which have achieved shining victories
under the wise leadership of the President and the General; they are
full of confidence and optimism with a determination to follow the Party
and achieve final victory in the Juche revolution pioneered on Mt.
Paektu.
This year we should display the revolutionary spirit and
mettle of Paektu to scathingly thwart the challenges and manoeuvres by
hostile forces and score a signal success in the struggle to defend
socialism and on all fronts of building a thriving nation. By doing so,
we should celebrate the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and
founding of the Party as revolutionary, auspicious events.
Upholding the slogan "Let us all turn out in the general offensive to
hasten final victory in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu!" all the
service personnel and people should charge dynamically towards the venue
of grand October celebrations. Bearing in mind the soul and mettle of
Paektu, we should become honourable victors in the general offensive to
exalt the dignity of our socialist country and promote its prosperity on
the strength of ideology, arms and science and technology.
This year we will further consolidate our country's invincible might as a socialist political and ideological power.
We should invariably hold up the President and the General forever
as the sun of Juche, staunchly championing and adding eternal brilliance
to their immortal revolutionary exploits.
In this year of the
70th anniversary of the Party, which organizes and guides all victories
of our people, we should set up a new milestone in improving its
leadership ability and fighting efficiency.
We should steadily
intensify the work of establishing the Party's monolithic leadership
system to make the whole Party share ideology with the Party Central
Committee, breathe the same breath as it and keep pace with it. All
Party organizations should maintain implementing the Party's lines and
policies as the major line of Party work, and carry every of them to
completion unconditionally.
We should ensure that the
people-first principle runs through the whole of Party work as
appropriate for its nature as a motherly party to make the climate of
respecting, loving and depending on them pervade it and Party work focus
on improving their living standards.
All the organizations and
officials of the Party should eliminate abuses of power and
bureaucratism, and take warm care of the people and lead them properly
to make sure that the latter trust and rely on it as they would do their
mothers and throw in their lot with it.
We should hold fast to
ideology as the Party's powerful weapon and make an ideological
offensive to consolidate the ideological position of our revolution
rock-solid. We should promote education in the greatness of the leaders,
Kim Jong Il's patriotism, faith, anti-imperialist and class
consciousness and morality to train all Party members, service personnel
and other working people into staunch fighters of the Songun revolution
and make them raise the fierce flames of patriotic loyalty, creation
and innovation at all posts in national defence and for building a
thriving nation.
This year we should further demonstrate our
country's might as a military power by bringing about a fresh turn in
building revolutionary armed forces and enhancing its defence
capability.
The People's Army should thoroughly establish the
Party's monolithic command system across the entire army and vigorously
conduct the movement of winning the titles of O Jung Hup-led 7th
Regiment and Guards Unit. Thus it should implement to the letter the
Party's four-point strategic line and three major tasks for increasing
military strength.
It should effect a turnaround in improving
the quality of training by eliminating formalism and stereotyped
patterns in combat and political training and updating its contents and
methods. It should maintain full combat readiness so that it can repulse
any provocation by the enemy in one stroke.
By bringing about a
radical turn in its supply service, it should provide soldiers with
better living conditions and make all its battalions and companies elite
combat ranks and their dear villages and homes that adjoin the yard of
the office of the Party Central Committee. In the future, too, it should
be a pioneer and example in the struggle to implement the Party's ideas
and safeguard its policies in pursuance of its plan for building a
thriving nation.
In line with the requirements of the prevailing
situation, the officers and men of the Korean People's Internal
Security Forces should sharpen the sword for defending the leader,
system and people, and members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the
Young Red Guards should conduct combat and political training in a
real-war atmosphere, thereby beefing up their combat efficiency and
getting fully prepared for an all-people resistance so that they can
defend their own provinces, counties and villages by themselves.
By carrying out the Party's line of promoting the two fronts
simultaneously, the defence industry sector should step up the efforts
to make the munitions production Juche-oriented, modern and scientific
and proactively develop and perfect powerful cutting-edge military
hardware of our own style.
This year we should give definite
precedence to science and technology and effect an upswing in building a
socialist economic giant and civilized nation.
It is a
determination and will of our Party to rapidly develop all sectors and
build a people's paradise by dint of science and technology. The front
of science should forcefully rush ahead in the vanguard of a thriving
socialist country building, thereby foiling the enemy's pernicious moves
for sanctions and encouraging all the economic sectors to make rapid
headway on the strength of the high-running spirit of independence and
of science and technology.
The scientific research sector
should wage a brisk drive for going beyond the cutting edge to produce
many valuable findings conducive to developing the economy, increasing
defence capability and improving the people's living standards.
Regarding science and technology as their lifeline, all sectors and all
units should step up modernization and introduction of information
technology in our style, raise the scientific and technological level of
officials and working people and vigorously carry on all undertakings
by relying on science and technology.
We should make maximum use
of the existing foundations and all potentials of the self-supporting
economy, so as to bring about a turn in improving the people's living
standards and building an economic giant.
In this significant year we should bring about an upturn in improving the people's living standards.
We should resolve the food problem of the people and improve their
dietary life on a higher level with agricultural production, animal
husbandry and fishing as the main thrusts.
The agricultural
sector should overcome unfavourable natural conditions and overfulfil
the cereals production plan by actively introducing scientific farming
methods including water-saving farming, supplying sufficient amounts of
farming materials and organizing and guiding production in conformity
with actual conditions. We should put the production at stockbreeding
and fish-farming bases, greenhouses and mushroom production bases built
across the country on a regular footing and ensure that the people
benefit from them.
True to the Party's plan, we should
dynamically speed up the building of the stockbreeding bases in the
Sepho area and make steady preparations for livestock production and
their operation. By emulating the working spirit of the People's Army
which made a new history of "sea of gold," the fishing sector should
drastically bolster up the fishing industry and land a huge haul, thus
supplying a large amount of fish to enrich the people's diet.
Fully aware of the responsibility and mission it assumes for the people,
the light industry sector should work out a strategy for fending for
itself and put production at central and local light-industry factories
on normal track, so as to supply our people, including students and
children, with larger amounts and various kinds of quality consumer
goods, school things and children's food.
We should direct great
efforts to relieving the shortage of electricity, a major source of
power of the national economy, and strive to shore up its vanguard
sectors and key industries.
We should increase coal and
electricity production in the mettle displayed in bringing about
innovations in the coal-mining industry and thermal power stations last
year and meet the immediate demand for electricity by waging a campaign
to economize on electricity to the maximum, while taking realistic
measures to resolve the electricity problem in a prospective way.
We should develop metal, chemical and other basic industries and brace
rail transport by relying on our own technology and resources and thus
ensure that all other economic sectors smoothly progress full of vigour.
We should foster external economic relations in a multilateral way and
accelerate the projects for economic development zones including the
Wonsan-Mt. Kumgang international tourist zone.
We should raise a
stronger wind of creating the Korean speed in the construction sector
so as to build power stations, factories, educational and cultural
establishments and dwelling houses as befit the monumental edifices in
the era of the Workers' Party. By completing with credit the major
construction projects, including the multi-tier power stations on the
Chongchon River, Kosan Fruit Farm and Mirae Scientists Street, we should
splendidly adorn the venue of grand October celebrations.
The
whole Party, the entire army and all the people should, as they carried
out rehabilitation after the war, turn out in the campaign to restore
the mountains of the country so as to turn them into "mountains of gold"
thickly wooded with trees. All the sectors should invariably push ahead
with the work of afforesting and landscaping the whole country and
turning it into orchard, and build Pyongyang, provinces, cities, county
seats, workplaces and villages in a more cultured way and maintain and
manage them on a regular basis.
All the economic sectors and
units should make positive efforts to increase production, improve the
quality of goods and enhance their competitive edge by working out
proper strategies for business operation and enterprise management and
tapping all possible reserves and potentialities. All the factories and
enterprises should wage a dynamic struggle to get rid of the proclivity
to import and ensure the domestic production of raw and other materials
and equipment, while sprucing themselves up by taking their cue from the
model units put forward by the Party.
The Cabinet and other
state organs for economic guidance should make proactive efforts to
establish the economic management method of our style as demanded by the
reality so that all the economic organs and enterprises can conduct
their business activities creatively on their own initiative. Party
organizations at all levels should throw their full weight behind the
work of improving economic management in order to make sure that it is
done as intended by the Party.
A vigorous spur should be given to the building of a civilized socialist nation.
We should bring about a radical improvement in education in the new
century by arousing state and social interest in the role of officials
in this sector and educational work, thereby making fresh progress in
making all the people well versed in science and technology and
developing ours into a talented nation.
The whole country should
bubble with enthusiasm for sports and our sportspeople should fly
higher the flag of the Republic at international games to open up bright
prospects for building a sporting power.
The sector of art and
literature should do away with stagnation and produce larger numbers of
contemporary masterpieces which inspire the masses to further efforts,
and the public health sector should improve the hygienic and
anti-epidemic work and preventive and curative medical care and boost
pharmaceutical production.
We should make sure that national
sentiments and noble and beautiful lifestyle prevail across society, and
press on with national heritage conservation as a patriotic undertaking
involving the whole country and all the people.
In order to
successfully carry out the enormous tasks for this year all the
officials, Party members, service personnel and other working people
should live and work in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit
of the blizzards of Paektu.
The spirit is, in essence, an
unyielding offensive spirit of braving obstacles and difficulties and a
staunch fighting spirit of rising up no matter how often one may fall
and fighting it out. The hearts of all our service personnel and people
should beat with the confidence in victory and indomitable spirit
cherished by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners who fought
death-defyingly for their country and people and won victory against all
odds. All the officials, Party members and other working people should
enter the venue of grand October celebrations proudly with gifts they
have prepared by dint of the revolutionary spirit of Paektu and through
creative struggle.
The whole country should overflow with the
spirit of patriotic devotion with which to hold dear and add brilliance
to our own things.
Holding dear and adding brilliance to our own
things is just the Korean-nation-first spirit and the genuine
patriotism that exalts the dignity of our country, our motherland, and
hastens its prosperity. We should value and add lustre to all the assets
the preceding generations of the revolution created on this land at the
cost of their blood and sweat under the guidance of the Party and the
leaders, and create and develop everything in our own way with a high
sense of national pride and by relying on our strength, technology and
resources.
Officials, leading participants in the revolution,
should be the standard-bearers and vanguard fighters in the ongoing
general offensive.
They should faithfully serve the country and
people for their prosperity and well-being with a noble outlook on
patriotism and firm preparedness for devoted service and, shouldering
heavy burdens by themselves, make redoubled efforts in the van of the
masses. With a full understanding of the Party's ideas and intentions,
officials should go deep among the masses and rouse them to carry
through its lines and policies unconditionally at the cost of their
lives. They should be fully accountable to the Party and the state for
the work in their sectors and units, eliminate defeatism,
self-preservation and expediency and do everything in an innovative and
scientific way.
Seventy years have passed since our nation was divided by outside forces.
In those decades the world has made a tremendous advance and the
times have undergone dramatic changes, but our nation has not yet
achieved reunification, suffering the pain of division. It is a
deplorable fact known to everyone and it is lamentable to everyone. No
longer can we bear and tolerate the tragedy of national division that
has continued century after century.
Last year we put forward
crucial proposals for improved inter-Korean relations and national
reunification and made sincere efforts for their implementation. Our
efforts, however, could not bear due fruit owing to the obstructive
moves by the anti-reunification forces within and without; instead the
north-south relations have been on a headlong rush to aggravation.
However complicated the situation may be and whatever obstacles and
difficulties may stand in our way, we should unfailingly achieve
national reunification, a lifetime wish of the President and the General
and the greatest desire of the nation, and build a dignified and
prosperous reunified country on this land.
"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!"-this is the
slogan of struggle the entire Korean nation should hold up.
We should remove the danger of war, ease the tension and create a peaceful environment on the Korean peninsula.
The large-scale war games ceaselessly held every year in south
Korea are the root cause of the escalating tension on the peninsula and
the danger of nuclear war facing our nation. It is needless to say that
there can be neither trustworthy dialogue nor improved inter-Korean
relations in such a gruesome atmosphere in which war drills are staged
against the dialogue partner.
To cling to nuclear war drills
against the fellow countrymen in collusion with aggressive outside
forces is an extremely dangerous act of inviting calamity.
We
will resolutely react against and mete out punishment to any acts of
provocation and war moves that infringe upon the sovereignty and dignity
of our country.
The south Korean authorities should discontinue
all war moves including the reckless military exercises they conduct
with foreign forces and choose to ease the tension on the Korean
peninsula and create a peaceful environment.
The United States,
the very one that divided our nation into two and has imposed the
suffering of national division upon it for 70 years, should desist from
pursuing the anachronistic policy hostile towards the DPRK and reckless
acts of aggression and boldly make a policy switch.
The north
and the south should refrain from seeking confrontation of systems while
absolutizing their own ideologies and systems but achieve great
national unity true to the principle of By Our Nation Itself to
satisfactorily resolve the reunification issue in conformity with the
common interests of the nation.
If they try to force their
ideologies and systems upon each other, they will never settle the
national reunification issue in a peaceful way, only bringing
confrontation and war.
Though the people-centred socialist
system of our own style is the most advantageous, we do not force it on
south Korea and have never done so.
The south Korean authorities
should neither seek "unification of systems" that incites distrust and
conflict between the north and the south nor insult the other side's
system and make impure solicitation to do harm to their fellow
countrymen, travelling here and there.
The north and the south,
as they had already agreed, should resolve the national reunification
issue in the common interests of the nation transcending the differences
in ideology and system.
They should briskly hold dialogue,
negotiations and exchanges and make contact to relink the severed ties
and blood vessels of the nation and bring about a great turn in
inter-Korean relations.
It is the unanimous desire of the fellow
countrymen for both sides to stop fighting and pave a new way for
reunification by concerted efforts. They should no longer waste time and
energy over pointless arguments and trifling matters but write a new
chapter in the history of inter-Korean relations.
Nothing is
impossible if our nation shares one purpose and joins efforts. On the
road for reunification the north and the south had got such charter and
great programme for reunification as the July 4 Joint Statement, the
historic June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration, thus
demonstrating to the whole world the nation's determination and mettle
to reunify the country.
We think that it is possible to resume
the suspended high-level contacts and hold sectoral talks if the south
Korean authorities are sincere in their stand towards improving
inter-Korean relations through dialogue.
And there is no reason why we should not hold a summit meeting if the atmosphere and environment for it are created.
In the future, too, we will make every effort to substantially promote dialogue and negotiations.
The entire Korean nation should turn out together in the nationwide
movement for the country's reunification so as to glorify this year as a
landmark in opening up a broad avenue to independent reunification.
Last year, in the international arena, hostilities and bloodshed
persisted in several countries and regions due to the imperialists'
outrageous arbitrariness and undisguised infringement upon their
sovereignty, which posed a serious threat to global peace and security.
Especially, owing to the United States' extremely hostile policy
aimed at isolating and suffocating our Republic, the bulwark of
socialism and fortress of independence and justice, the vicious cycle of
tension never ceased and the danger of war grew further on the Korean
peninsula.
The United States and its vassal forces are resorting
to the despicable "human rights" racket as they were foiled in their
attempt to destroy our self-defensive nuclear deterrent and stifle our
Republic by force.
The present situation, in which
high-handedness based on strength is rampant and justice and truth are
trampled ruthlessly in the international arena, eloquently demonstrates
that we were just in our efforts to firmly consolidate our self-reliant
defence capability with the nuclear deterrent as its backbone and
safeguard our national sovereignty, the lifeblood of the country, under
the unfurled banner of Songun.
As long as the enemy persists in
its moves to stifle our socialist system, we will consistently adhere to
the Songun politics and the line of promoting the two fronts
simultaneously and firmly defend the sovereignty of the country and the
dignity of the nation, no matter how the international situation and the
structure of relations of our surrounding countries may change. On the
basis of the revolutionary principles and independent stand, we will
expand and develop foreign relations in a multilateral and positive way,
giving top priority to the dignity and interests of the country.
Our Party and the government of our Republic will solidify in every
respect the bond and solidarity with the world's progressive peoples who
love peace and aspire after independence and justice, and strive to
develop good neighbourly relations with all the countries that respect
our national sovereignty and are friendly to us.
No force in the
world can check the advance of our army and people who are rushing
forward like the blizzards of Paektu filled with rock-firm revolutionary
faith and mettle of invincibility under the leadership of the great
Party, and final victory undoubtedly belongs to us.
Let us all
staunchly strive to glorify this significant year as a year of great
victories and revolutionary, auspicious events, rallied more closely
behind the Party and singing aloud the march of final victory.
Greeting the hope-filled new year 2015, I wish all the families across the country happiness.
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