Kim Jong-un Sends Letter to Workers' Group... "Self-Reliant Vanguard Fighter to Carry Out the 5-Year Plan"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, sent a letter to participants of the Vocational General Federation (Jikchong) congress, an external workers' organization of the Workers' Party, emphasizing the need to become "vanguards of self-reliance."

Korean Central News Agency reported on the 27th that "the 8th Congress of the Korean Vocational General Federation was held in Pyongyang on the 25th and 26th," and that General Secretary Kim sent a letter to participants urging the Vocational Federation to "become the vanguard force leading a new high tide of socialist construction."

In the letter, General Secretary Kim stated, "The working class and members of the Vocational Federation must be firmly prepared as possessors of communist faith who fight with confidence in the bright future of our style socialism," and instructed the Vocational Federation on its role, saying, "In carrying out the Party's five-year plan, prepare them solidly as vanguards of self-reliance and pioneers of creation who excellently fulfill their role as the eldest sons of the country and the vanguard force."

He continued, "They must deeply engrave in their hearts that only by our style and our strength can we pioneer the future of Juche industry," and emphasized self-reliance by saying, "Firmly reject the disease of import and dependence on others, and thoroughly uphold the principle of self-sufficiency in all things necessary for economic construction and people's livelihood with our own raw materials, supplies, strength, and technology."

General Secretary Kim also urged that while achieving the goals of the five-year plan in the sectors of metal, chemical, electric power, coal, machinery, railway transport, and construction, they must "once again strive with the indomitable spirit that blazed the trail of developing our style advanced weapons in the military industry sector and actively contribute to raising our national defense industry to a new stage of development."

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