Press Report of WPK Central Committee on Conclusion of 200-day Campaign

Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) made public a press report Sunday on the victorious conclusion of the 200-day campaign on Dec. 15 after it was started on June 1. The 200-day campaign was an all-people drive for successive attack and a breakthrough for defending the spirit of the 7th Congress of the WPK and glorifying 2016 as the greatest heyday of the revolution by expanding and developing the victory won in the 70-day campaign, and a great battle for creation of the self-development-first spirit and the great battle for creation of speed of Mallima, the press report said. It went on: The single-minded unity of the party and the revolutionary ranks, mainstay of the Juche revolution, has been consolidated as firm as a rock. This is the biggest victory won in the 200-day campaign. The heroic officers and men of the People's Army set an excellent example of devotedly carrying forward the instructions of the leaders on the foremost fronts and kindled the flame of implementing the party's idea and defending the party's policies all over the country by holding fast to the treasured sword of defending the revolution and the people, and thus fulfilled their duty as the revolutionary army of the party in consolidating the great army-people unity. The young Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist vanguard displayed resourcefulness and bravery of heroic youths in all difficult and toilsome worksites. The heroic Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist working class, agricultural workers, intellectuals and women displayed the spiritual and moral traits of helping and leading each other forward with kindred feelings while upholding the party and the leader with white gem-like loyalty and increased production. A miraculous victory of converting misfortune into favorable conditions was won on the front of recovering from the flood damage in the northern parts of North Hamgyong Province. The revolutionary armed forces intensified training the way anti-Japanese guerrillas did in Mt. Paektu, getting themselves fully ready for combat for blowing up the bases of aggression and provocation in all operational theatres and defending the security of the country and the happiness of the people. The people in the defence industry achieved successive victories in nuclear warhead explosion test and development of Korean-style ultra-modern strategic weapons. In the industrial field the goal of total output value of the 200-day campaign was carried out at 119 percent and thousands of industrial establishments over-fulfilled their yearly plans for the national economy ahead of schedule. In the field of science and technology, 250KW wind power generator was developed for the first time in the country, the technology of producing electrode for UHP electric arc furnace completed and many other scientific and technological problems settled. And preparations were pushed forward for building ultra-modern technical industry. Production of electricity and coal was put on a high normal footing, more achievements were registered in metal industry and railway transport and the basic industrial fields including machinery, chemistry and building-materials industries brought about a surge in production. Unusual successes were registered in the fields of agriculture, fruit farming and fishery such as great harvest of grains and fruits and spectacular scenery of a good catch of fish. A number of indigenous raw and other materials and equipment were developed and produced and Korean-style modernization was powerfully pushed forward and light industrial goods with Korean trademark were churned out. Socialist fairy streets and villages mushroomed in the northern tip of the country along the River Tuman and the first-phase construction of Honggon Islet tideland, the first-phase construction of waterway in South Hwanghae Province, Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital, Medical Oxygen Factory and other monumental edifices of the Mallima era were completed and the construction of Ryomyong Street progressed apace. Many factories and enterprises witnessed the appearance of a great number of those who fulfilled their production plans for two years and three years and pacesetters of the Mallima spirit and also the practice of heroic deeds. Kim Il Sung University and more than 110 universities across the country put the teaching on a pragmatic, integrated and modern basis and the classrooms and experiment and practice rooms on a multi-functional basis, and a progress was made in enforcing the universal 12-year compulsory education system and scientific and technological dissemination bases were arranged at a large number of industrial establishments and co-op farms. Woman footballers of the country raised two World Cups and literature and art pieces of high ideological value and artistry were created, notably song "Advancing Socialism", lengthy novel "Field Train" among the cycle of novels "Immortal Guidance", music and dance story "Life Story of Youth" and feature film "Story of My Family". The press report stressed that the general goal of the 200-day campaign was attained and, thereby, a firm ground was laid for hitting the target of the five-year strategy for national economic development. -0-