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More Mass Rallies Held to Vow to Fulfill Militant Tasks for This Year
Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- Mass rallies took place in South and North Phyongan, North Hwanghae and South Hamgyong provinces Wednesday to response to the letter of the employees of the Chollima Steel Complex and vow to thoroughly implement the militant tasks laid down in the joint New Year editorial in hearty.

Attending the rallies were leading officials of local party, power and economic organs and working people's organizations, people from all walks of life, youth and students.

Read out there was the letter of the employees of the complex addressed to all other working people across the country.

Reporters and speakers at the mass rallies renewed their determination to translate the plan of the Workers' Party of Korea for building an economic power into reality with the will to carry through General Secretary Kim Jong Il's instructions in a do-or-die spirit, noting that to effect a great surge at present means a new general advance to put the national economy on the stage of leaping progress in the revolutionary soldier spirit and by dint of science and technology.

They called upon the party members and other working people to keep pace with the forced march being conducted by Kim Jong Il and put spurs to the on-going all-out charge to glorify the honor of being victors.

They underscored the need to proudly build a great prosperous powerful nation through a great revolutionary surge in the Songun era by carrying forward the tradition of the heroic generation who defended the party and the leader through the great Chollima upswing and built socialism.

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