DPRK Briefing Book : The Modernization and Informationalization of the National Economy and the Construction of a Strong and Powerful State
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), November 25, 2003.
It is an important policy pursued by the Workers’ Party of Korea at present for building an economic power to modernize and put the national economy on an IT basis, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. To modernize the national economy and put it on an IT basis provides an important guarantee for the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, the article says, and continues:
The modernization and informationalization of the national economy are an important work to provide a material guarantee for the building of an ideologically strong nation.
If the national economy is modernized and put on an IT basis, material means for ideological education will be replaced by modern and IT based equipment to bring about greater successes in the ideological education.
The modernization and informationalization of the national economy also provides a material guarantee for the building of a military power.
The heavy industry is the field of key significance in developing the national defence industry.
The production of ultra-modern military hardware suited to the specific feature of modern warfare would be unthinkable without the modernization and informationalization of the heavy industry.
The modernization and informationalization of the light industry and agriculture are an important factor of building up a strong national defence industry.
All this proves that the modernization and informationalization of all the fields of the national economy provide a material guarantee for the building of a military power.
The modernization and informationalization of the national economy provides an important guarantee for building an economic power.
It converts man’s work into an intellectual work, making it plays a decisive role in producing material wealth. When the rate of intellectual work significantly increases with the realization of modernization and informationalization of the national economy and becomes a key factor in creating material wealth, the people will enjoy a boundlessly happy material and cultural life.