PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) â" North Korea vowed Sunday to theatre an all-out expostulate for wealth as it unites behind new personality Kim Jong Un, ushering in 2012 with promises to solve food shortages, accelerate a infantry and urge Kim Jong Il's immature son "unto death."
The oath in North Korea's annual New Year's message, expelled by a central Korean Central News Agency, comes as a republic enters a new era, with Kim Jong Un commissioned as Supreme Commander of a 1.2 million-strong infantry and statute celebration personality following his father's Dec. 17 death.
This year is a essential one in North Korea's story as it tries to build a "great, moneyed and comprehensive nation" fitting a Apr 2012 centenary of a birth of inhabitant owner Kim Il Sung, a new leader's grandfather.
"Glorify this year 2012 as a year of unapproachable victory, a year when an epoch of wealth is unfolding," the North said. "The whole party, a whole army and all a people should possess a organisation self-assurance that they will spin tellurian bulwarks and tellurian shields in fortifying Kim Jong Un unto death."
North Korea pronounced it would boost a military, and boasted that it was "at a momentous indicate of opening a gates of a abounding country," with tools of Pyongyang "turned into revolutionary fairylands."
Still, a summary concurred a country's food crisis, observant "the food problem is a blazing issue." Pyongyang had been in talks with a United States on food aid, though they stopped given of Kim Jong Il's death.
The United Nations has pronounced a entertain of North Korea's 24 million people need outward food assist and that gauntness is surging, generally among children.
The North's summary pronounced organic tillage methods should be used and that tillage machine and materials should be provided, though it did not go into specifics for improving food supplies.
The message, carried in a corner editorial in a Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi newspapers, pronounced North Korea contingency build on a foundations laid final year and spin itself "into an mercantile giant."
The energy and spark industries also will be a concentration and a North Korean collateral Pyongyang will be incited into a universe category city, it said. The summary pronounced information record and bioengineering would assistance expostulate a economy, though gave no details.
"This year's summary shows North Korea will concentration on a economy and ideological oneness to settle stability" for Kim Jong Un's leadership, pronounced Yoo Ho-yeol, a highbrow during Korea University in South Korea.
The summary didn't embody a country's standard critique of a U.S. and avoided mentioning a chief ambitions, and that suggested Pyongyang is peaceful to continue talks with Washington to win aid, Yoo said.
North Korea's normal New Year's Day summary is always closely watched for clues to a government's plans. It takes on combined stress this year, entrance only dual weeks after a genocide of longtime personality Kim Jong Il.
North Korea in new days has cemented Kim Jong Un's position as leader, and on Saturday strictly named him Supreme Commander over a military.
"The whole army should place comprehensive trust in and follow Kim Jong Un," a New Year's summary said.
The North related Kim Jong Un to a "songun," or military-first, process of Kim Jong Il, and called him "the almighty center" of a country's unity. In fact, a editorial said, "The dear reputable Kim Jong Un is precisely a good Kim Jong Il."
The summary spoke of a enterprise for reunification with South Korea â" a indicate a North mostly mentions, though did not give specifics. Pyongyang warned Friday that there would be no softening of a position toward South Korea's supervision after Kim Jong Il's death.
The North again voiced a annoy opposite Seoul over what it calls "confrontation with a associate countrymen," citing a refusal to concede South Koreans, solely for dual private delegations, to revisit and compensate respects to Kim Jong Il.
"The statute army in South Korea have spin an intent of people's unrelenting trial," Sunday's editorial said, also perfectionist that U.S. infantry stationed in South Korea be removed.
North Korea's comprehensive National Defense Commission pronounced a republic would never understanding with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, a regressive who stopped a no-strings-attached assist process toward a North in 2008.
Yoo, a professor, pronounced a North's warning is directed during augmenting a precedence in destiny negotiations to wring some-more aid. "North Korea won't come to high-level supervision talks though would still wish to get assist from municipal groups," he said.
Lee is approaching to criticism on North Korea when he gives a New Year's debate scheduled for Monday.
North Korea, that has tested dual atomic inclination given 2006, has pronounced it wants to lapse to a negotiating list for talks on crude a chief weapons module in lapse for aid. Washington and Seoul, however, insist that a North make swell on past disarmament commitments before negotiations can resume.
Six-nation chief talks have been stalled for 3 years. Besides a dual Koreas, a talks embody China, a United States, Russia and Japan.
The Korean peninsula stays technically in a state of fight given a 1950s dispute finished in a truce, not a assent treaty.
Kim Jong Un also perceived a boost from China, his country's biggest backer. President Hu Jintao sent congratulations to Kim late Saturday on his appointment as autarchic infantry leader. The message, carried on a government's website, was China's many approach uncover of support for a new leader. It pronounced a people and armies of a countries had a low normal friendship, and that family will continue to be strengthened.
Also Sunday, state media pronounced that posters moving a army and people have been combined in North Korea. One of them, patrician "Let's spin grief into strength and bravery and sojourn constant to a good party," reflects a organisation oath of all North Koreans to build a abounding revolutionary republic and reason a dear reputable Kim Jong Un in high esteem, according to KCNA.
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Associated Press writers Foster Klug, Hyung-jin Kim and Scott McDonald in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. Follow Klug during twitter.com/APklug.
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