North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un inspected the Taegwan Glass Factory in North Pyongan Province, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Sunday. KCNA-Yonhap

By Jung Da-min

North Korea is strengthening ideological education, particularly for workers and students, in a move to promote the country's new economic strategy declared last April.

Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party, on Thursday carried a front-page editorial emphasizing the three revolutions― ideological, technical and cultural ― saying the socialistic ethics toward collective work, in particular, should be strengthened to implement the country's five-year strategic economic plans.

"Our party initiated a new strategic route to concentrate our efforts on building a socialist economy last April," the editorial said, referring to the party plenum where North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un declared a new strategic line on the economy. "Every department and unit should carry out the three-revolution movement in close relation with the great march of building the economy."

Rodong Sinmun has recently been publishing articles on strengthening ideological education at every production unit in the country.

On Thursday, the paper's first page also carried an article about intensive lecture and promotion activities in Kangwon Province.

According to the article, the propagandists encouraged workers through "incendiary" speech, as they received special education from the party's provincial committee.

They also provided supporting goods to a construction site in Kosong County, Kangwon Province.

North Korea's external propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri on Thursday also published an article emphasizing the "sensational leap" in the economy amid "tenacious" sanctions imposed on the regime by "hostile forces."

"We never thought of building the economy with the help of others," it said. "Nothing has stopped us from advancing and our republic has turned into a strong, self-reliant country."