North Korea encouraged its workers Wednesday to launch a campaign to achieve its new strategic line of pushing for two goals of nuclear armament and economic development.

In a commentary to mark May Day carried by the Rodong Sinmun, the North’s communist party newspaper, the communist country said the laborers should “manifest the spirit to fight against the United States and to build a strong nation by fighting for the party’s new strategic line.”

During a plenary meeting in March, the North’s ruling Workers’ Party adopted the strategic course for achieving the two objectives of economic construction and nuclear development at the same time on the basis of self-reliance, and has been promoting it.

Praising the laborers as “fervent fighters” for “our-style socialism,” the article, in particular, called on those working for the country’s ammunition industry to work harder “to proactively develop more powerful and advance nuclear weapons by creating more miniaturized nuclear weapons and launchers.” (Yonhap News)