In last month‟s New Year‟s Joint Editorial， North Korean authorities reaffirmed the national drive to strongly develop the country‟s light industrial sector by 2012， the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung. On February 2， the Choson Sinbo， the newspaper of the pro-North Korean residents‟ league in Japan， proclaimed that all efforts were being focused on delivering high-quality light industrial goods by April of next yea