The work comprehensively clarifies all issues arising in victoriously advancing the socialist cause with the might of ideology as required by the developing era and revolution including the essence and contents of the ideological work and the basic duties, principles and ways of conducting it.

The article goes on:

Kim Jong Il has provided great leadership to steer the drive for effecting a great surge to victory with the might of ideology. This finds an expression, first of all, in the facts that he set forth revolutionary slogans and militant policies, giving full play to the revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ingenuity of the Korean people, and saw to it that forms and methods of the ideological work were steadily improved as required by the developing reality. This also finds its manifestation in that he made sure that the ideological work was energetically conducted as the work involving the whole Party and state and society.

The slogans "All efforts for the victory in the drive for bringing about a great surge!" and "Let us all become honorable victors in the 150-day campaign!" seen at every site of the campaign for building a great prosperous and powerful nation reflect the unshakable will of Kim Jong Il to conduct an all-out offensive involving the whole Party, a general drive involving the whole state mobilization and an all-people general decisive campaign to usher in an era of the greatest creations and changes in the history of the country.

While putting up revolutionary slogans arousing all the people to effect a great upswing Kim Jong Il has elucidated all issues arising in subordinating everything to effecting a great surge and bringing about an unprecedented boost in production including the issue of waging a more dynamic political and ideological offensive to motivate the masses' thought as required by the developing reality in all fields and the issue of giving full play to the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance, the popular heroism and the collectivist spirit.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, all the systems and methods of the ideological work of the WPK have been oriented towards winning victory in the drive for effecting a new great revolutionary surge and the vitality of ideological and educational means including media and literature and arts has been fully demonstrated.

Officials should play the role of a blower arousing the mental power of the masses while the party members should play the role of a skilful agitator leading the masses to steer their mindset. This is the noble intention of Kim Jong Il.

The officials and other party members are energetically steering the masses in the drive for building a thriving nation as torch-bearers and vanguard for a new great revolutionary surge, true to the intention of Kim Jong Il.