Kim Jong Un Reviews Achievements Made Last Year

Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in the New Year Address for 2017 reviewed the successes gained last year. He said that 2016 was a year of revolutionary and auspicious event and great turn to be specially recorded in the history of the Workers' Party of Korea and the country. Last year the Seventh Congress of the WPK was held significantly with splendor as a grand political festival thanks to the high revolutionary enthusiasm of all the party members, service personnel and people and amid deep concern of the world, he said, and continued: The iron will of the Korean army and people to advance along the road of Juche forever under the leadership of the Party was fully demonstrated and an eternal foundation of the Korean revolution firmly laid through the historic Seventh Congress. An epoch-making turn was made in bolstering up the national defence capacity of Juche Korea and the DPRK soared as a nuclear and military power in the East that no formidable enemy dare encroach upon. The first H-bomb test and test-fire of various offensive means and nuclear warhead explosion test were successfully conducted, the work for studying and developing the latest armaments was brisk, and the preparations for launching the inter-continental ballistic missile reached the final stage. These epoch-making events, witnessed one after another in bolstering up the national defence capabilities, provided a powerful military guarantee for defending the destiny of the country and the nation and victoriously advancing the cause of building a powerful socialist country. The Korean People's Army resolutely smashed the enemies' reckless aggression and war provocation moves and reliably defended the security of the country and the gains of the revolution and more perfectly rounded off political, ideological, military and technical preparedness as an invincible army. Thanks to the heroic struggle of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class and all other people, the gigantic goals of the 70-day and 200-day campaigns put forward by the WPK were successfully hit and a new breakthrough made in the country's economic development. Scientists and technicians successfully launched Kwangmyongsong-4, an earth observation satellite and succeeded in the ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of a carrier rocket for the geo-stationary satellite and thus opened a wide road to conquering space. The production and transport goals were attained in important fields of the national economy, including electricity, coal, metal, chemical and building materials industries and the railway transport, and thus the potentiality of the independent economy was demonstrated, vigorously fuelling the building of a socialist economic power. Many industrial establishments and cooperative farms made proud successes of surpassing the record of highest production, the People's Army took the lead to glorify the history of big fish hauls, the legendary construction speed was created at construction sites of important projects and admirable successes were made in the field of education, public health and sports. The whole country turned out in hearty response to the call of the Party for the recovery of the flood-hit areas of North Hamgyong Province, bringing about miraculous victory in a short period. Kim Jong Un said that the shining successes gained in all fields of the revolution and construction last year were not attributable to good conditions and accidental chances, adding the mysterious power that helped bring about all miracles and victory is the single-minded unity of all servicepersons and civilians and the great self-development spirit. The single-minded unity is the lifeline of Juche Korea and driving force of great surge and the way to be taken by us is the self-reliance and self-development, he said, adding: This is the precious truth of the Juche revolution that the army and people of the DPRK proved in the gigantic struggle of 2016. -0-