2008 朝鮮的歷史轉變之年

二零零八年，朝鮮的歷史轉變之年
2008, Year of Historical Turn of DPRK

金正日將軍於二零零零年六月十三日歡迎金大中到訪平壤
General Kim Jong Il welcome Kim Dae Jung visit Pyongyang on 13th June, 2000.

今年是朝鮮民主主義人民共和國成立六十周年。

1948年9月9日，金日成建立了朝鮮民主主義人民共和國。這是他推重朝鮮人民為自主的有力量的革命人民，開創了建設以人民群眾為中心的社會主義國家新紀元的歷史事件。用一句話來說，共和國所走過來的歷程，是在偉大領袖的領導下譜寫創造和建設的英雄史詩，以自主、自立、自衛的強國崛起的巨變歷史，是在反帝鬥爭的嚴峻暴風驟雨中，有力地顯示朝鮮式社會主義的優越性和不可戰勝性的神聖歷程。

社會主義朝鮮的始祖，建國之父金日成建設富強祖國的事業，由金正日出色地繼承下來。由於有了他的先軍政治，朝鮮的尊嚴和國力提昇到最高境界，展現了民族歷史上空前大繁榮昌盛的全盛期。在這令人歡欣鼓舞的時候慶祝共和國成立六十周年，是朝鮮人民無上的光榮和驕傲。

朝鮮人民將在2012年迎接金日成100華誕。在朝鮮建立國力強大、一切興盛、人民過上無所羨慕生活的社會主義強盛大國，這是金日成畢生的願望和事業。要依靠在先軍革命烈火中打造的強大的政治軍事威力，把經濟和人民生活提昇到高水平，到2012年一定敞開強盛大國大門，這是朝鮮勞動黨的決心和意志。

金正日將軍參觀中國的科研機構
General Kim Jong Il paid a visit to a Chinese scientific research

今天，朝鮮人民面臨着偉大轉變時期。要在最近幾年內出色地實現勞動黨的遠大構想和目標，就要從今年起大張旗鼓地發動總進軍，在社會主義建設的所有領域掀起飛躍風暴。因此，朝鮮人民提出了今年必須狠抓的口號「要使迎接共和國成立六十周年的今年成為彪炳祖國青史的歷史轉變之年」。這一口號也是今年元旦發表的《勞動新聞》等朝鮮主要報紙聯合社論的標題。聯合社論向朝鮮人民提出了今年面臨的三大任務。

第一、要進一步發揮先軍朝鮮的第一國力 – 政治思想威力。 今年，朝鮮將把首要力量放在最大限度地發揮比核武器更有威力的千萬軍民的精神力量上。千萬軍民在領導者周圍團結、團結、再團結起來，全心全意擁護領導者的思想和領導，是先軍朝鮮的第一國力，有這種政治思想威力世上就沒有攻不破的要塞。聯合社論強調，「今天的總進軍是思想的總進軍，強盛大國建設的根本是發動軍隊和人民的精神力量」。

第二、要狠抓朝鮮勞動黨的先軍革命路線，不斷加強共和國的軍事威力。強大的國防力量是先軍朝鮮自主尊嚴的象徵，是實現繁榮昌盛的根本保證。朝鮮勞動黨把重視軍事當作強盛大國建設基本戰略的革命立場是堅定不移的。今年，朝鮮將全力加強自衛國防力量的中樞 – 人民軍的思想政治、軍事技術威力的同時、首先發展國防工業，進一步加強民間武裝力量，把全國變成攻不破摧不毀的要塞，還將加強先軍朝鮮的驕傲 – 軍民團結，使之牢不可破。

第三、全黨、全國、全民要發奮圖強，展開總攻擊戰，建設經濟強國。今天在朝鮮，強盛大國建設的主攻戰線是經濟戰線。經濟強國建設的基本方向，是不斷加強國民經濟的主體性，積極實現以最新科學技術為基礎的現代化，全面高度發揮自立民族經濟的優越性和生命力。朝鮮將堅持既保證本國經濟結構的特點，又進行經濟技術改造的原則，既保證最大限度的實利，又使人民享受實惠的原則，以充分調動內部源泉和可能性為基本發展對外經濟關係的原則。還將下大力量搞活社會主義經濟建設的生命線 – 國民經濟的先行部門、基礎工業部門；提倡人民生活第一主義，發展農業和輕工業，建設住房等。朝鮮人民建設經濟強國的任務是十分艱巨的。

但是，朝鮮人民是在廢墟上建立了社會主義的英雄人民，是上世紀末葉在維護社會主義的嚴峻考驗中化「艱難的行軍」為向樂園行軍的剛強的人民。朝鮮人民充滿決心，定將作出引以自豪的勞動成績，問心無愧地參加慶祝共和國成立六十周年的九月大慶典。

二零零八年必將是朝鮮的歷史轉變之年。

資料由朝鮮民主主義人民共和國駐香港總領事館提供

金正日將軍與吳儀
General Kim Jong Il with Wu Yi

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General Kim Jong Il paid a visit to Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
金正日將軍訪問中國廣東省深圳市

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The founding of the Republic by President Kim Il Sung on September 9, 1948 was a historic event which made the Korean people an independent and mighty revolutionary people and ushered in the building of a socialist state centred on the masses. In a word, the 60 years of the Republic is a history of gigantic changes in which it has risen to a power independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in defence, writing a heroic epic of creation and construction under the leadership of the great leaders, and also a scared course through which the country has demonstrated the superiority and invincibility of socialism of Korean style in the crucible of the anti-imperialist struggle.

Kim Jong Il has brilliantly carried forward the cause of building a prosperous and powerful country of President Kim Il Sung, the founding father of socialist Korea. It is a great honour and pride for the Korean people to greet the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK in the exciting period when the dignity and might of the country have risen to a high level and a heyday of prosperity and grandeur unprecedented in the national history has been ushered in by dint of Kim Jong Il's Songun-based politics.

In 2012 the Korean people will greet the 100th birthday of President Kim Il Sung. It was his lifetime wish and cause to build a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country on this land, a country in which the national power is strong, everything thrives and the people live envying nothing in the world. It is a determination and will of the Workers' Party of Korea to raise the economy of the country and the people's livelihood to a high level by relying on the strong political and military might consolidated in the tempest of the Songun revolution, and thus open wide in 2012 the gate to a great, prosperous and powerful country without fail.

General Kim Jong Il welcome by the people
金正日將軍受群眾歡迎

Now is an era of great changes to the Korean people. In order to carry out in the near future the grand plan and objective set by the Workers' Party, the Korean people should make a fresh leap forward on all fronts of socialist construction drumming up support for the general advance from the campaign of this year.

Therefore, the Korean people held high the slogan of this year - “Glorify this year of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK as a year of historical turn which will go down in the history of the country!”

The joint editorial of the DPRK's major newspapers including Rodong Sinmun, which was made public with this slogan as its title on the first morning of the New Year, set three main tasks before the Korean people.

First, the political and ideological might, the quintessence of the national strength of Songun Korea, should be brought into fuller play.

This year the Korean people will direct primary effort to bringing into fullest play the mental power of all the soldiers and people, which is more powerful than nuclear weapons. The quintessence of the national strength of Songun Korea is the way all the soldiers and people firmly unite behind the leader and single-mindedly uphold his ideology and intention. There is no fortress in the world which such political and ideological might cannot conquer. The new year's joint editorial stressed, “The present general onward march is an ideological one, and the fundamental guarantee for building a great, prosperous and powerful country is to motivate the mental power of the soldiers and people.”

Secondly, the Korean people should constantly increase the military strength of the Republic by holding fast to the Songun-based revolutionary line of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Strong defence capabilities are symbolic of the independent dignity of Songun Korea and a basic guarantee for its prosperity. The Workers' Party of Korea is consistent in its stand to hold the idea of giving prominence to the military affairs as the basic strategy in building a great, prosperous and powerful nation. This year the DPRK will give priority to the development of the defence industry, further strengthen militias and turn the whole country into an impregnable fortress while increasing the political and ideological, military and technical strength of the Korean People's Army, the backbone of self-defensive capabilities. It will consolidate rock-solid the army people unity, the pride of Songun Korea.

Thirdly, the entire Party, the whole country and all the people should launch a general offensive to build an economic power.

Today, the economy is the front of main efforts in the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation. The main orientation in the building of an economic power is to steadily strengthen the Juche character of the economy and update it on the basis of latest science and technology so as to give full play to the advantages and vitality of the independent national economy.

The Korean people will adhere to the principle of technically modernizing the economy while preserving the specific features of the economic structure, the principle of making people enjoy substantial benefit while ensuring the greatest possible profitability and the principle of developing external economic relations while putting main stress on tapping all domestic resources and potentials. They should make decisive efforts to shore up the basic industries, the vanguard sectors of the national economy, which constitute the lifeline of the socialist economic construction. And they should develop agriculture and light industry, and push ahead with the building of dwelling houses under the people's-living-first policy.

Their tasks are truly colossal and formidable. But the Korean people are a heroic people who built socialism on the ruins and a stout-hearted people who turned the “Arduous March” into a cheerful advance braving through severe ordeals.

They are all full of determination to take part with proud labour achievements in the grand festival of September to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Republic.

The year of 2008 will be glorified as the year of historical turn of the DPRK.

Source: Consulate General of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Hong Kong