"When the people's living standards are decisively improved, hooray for socialism and singing of Arirang of prosperity can ring out louder across the country and the gate to a prosperous nation be opened."
Marshall Kim Jong Il chairman of the military comission of Korea and the Workers party of Korea
quoted in the new years editorial of 2010 at KCNA.CO.JP
The Year 2010 or Juche 99 according to the DPRK calendar obviously seems to be a year of hope for the korean people, a year for development and socialist construction, for progress and for peace. The general populace who are still frustrated by the ever present treath of war that remains beacuse of the U.S. troops ' unwillingness to sign a peace treaty and leave the peninsula has been a treath to peace since the end of the 1940's and continues to treathen the political stability of the whole region even today. If we read the new year editorial published on Korean news agency KCNA we still have evidence that the korean people are comitted towards development and progress in a way that seems uneffected by the quagmire the people finds itself in due to the overhanging war treath.
As such the new years editorial stated
"New Year Juche 99 (2010) is a year of general offensive, when all-Party and nationwide efforts should be concentrated on improving the people's standard of living on the basis of the laudable victory and achievements of the great revolutionary upsurge.
Kim Jong Il said:
"Our building of the country into an economic giant is aimed, to all intents and purposes, at radically improving the people's standard of living. When the people's living standards are decisively improved, hooray for socialism and singing of Arirang of prosperity can ring out louder across the country and the gate to a prosperous nation be opened."
In the meantime in the midst of all celebration of the successes in socialist contruction that was evident also in the recent celebration of Marshall Kim Jong Il's birthday in february, difficulties facing the country are also evident, internally broad unity and love of peace is the most common experience of the korean people, but in the south side of the country, which remains under occupation by U.S forces, the sense of war treath hanging over the region remains aparent. Thus Beijing review reported recently, that the US. ARMY recently advanced military drills and excercises that have been precieved by the koreans as nothing else other than preparation for invasion, which could pose a serious treath to the cease fire treaty of 1953.
The DPRK although a developing country has been forced to put a large amout of it resources of defence mechanisms including nuclear war deterrents who are very costly, i.e we are talking about resources that would have been more useful elsewhere if the war treath was not as aparent as it is today.
The Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army reported that all people must be prepared for warfare if anything happens,
as the war treath has been hanging in the air for a long time.
Yet when I look upon the recent developments in Korea, I would want to focus on the positive. Then I look up to what was expressed by Marshal Kim Jong Il the Chairman of the korean military commission.
His notes on the future plans for korea and for the general development and improvment of the living standards of all people, is great news.
Let us all hope that the Korean people's wishes to pursuit peaceful socialist construction can continue without restrains of further treaths of imperialist invasion.
The above mentioned so called "drill" is said to be planned to last until the 18th of March.
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