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Meeting held to mark anniversary of June 15 Inter-Korean Declaration

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- A meeting to mark the 3rd anniversary of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was held in front of the monument to the three charters of national reunification here on June 15. Addressing the meeting, Kim Yong Nam, President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, said that the historic Pyongyang summit and the adoption of the June 15 joint declaration were a shining fruition of the noble patriotic intention of Kim Jong Il who has rendered devoted service, regarding it as his life-long mission to carry out President Kim Il Sung's instructions for national reunification.
    After the publication of the joint declaration Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to convert the inter-Korean relations into those between Koreans and usher in a new era of history in which the Koreans pool their efforts to solve the issue of national reunification by their concerted efforts, he said.
    Underscoring the need to strengthen national cooperation in every way under the uplifted banner of the joint declaration so as to avert the danger of an imminent war and protect the peace of the country and safety of the nation he continued:
    All the Koreans should promote contact and dialogue in the idea of "by our nation itself" and expand the scope of national cooperation through multi-faceted cooperation and exchange.
    At the same time, they should never tolerate any move to chill national cooperation and foster confrontation against the trend of the times and humiliating "cooperation" with outsiders.
    They should never allow the U.S. imperialists to go ahead with the moves for aggression and intervention aimed to infringe upon the dignity and the sovereignty of the Korean nation. The Korean nation should get the U.S. forces withdrawn from South Korea by its concerted efforts.
    The South Korean authorities should refrain from cooperating with the outsiders in their anti-DPRK racket to start a new war but join the nation in its efforts to sincerely implement the June 15 joint declaration.
    We should uphold the slogan of "by our nation itself" and firmly unite with political parties, organizations and figures from all walks of life who support and wish the independent reunification of the country regardless of whether they are persons in power or civilians and irrespective of their party affiliation, ideology and political views.
    We should frustrate all the U.S. moves to bar the inter-Korean relations from improving and perpetuate the division of Korea and certainly force it to pay a high price for all sorts of untold misfortune and crimes it has brought to the Korean nation for nearly 60 years.
    The DPRk's Songun policy is a genuine patriotic policy as it defends the dignity and the sovereignty of the entire nation and guarantees the safety and the prosperity of the nation, he said, calling upon all the Koreans to actively support the Songun policy and uphold it with one and the same patriotic mind.
    Then its attendants listened the recorded congratulatory speeches sent to the festival by leader Kim Chol of Chondoism, permanent representative of the preparatory committee of the headquarters for the promotion of 2003 joint national events in South Korea on behalf of the south side and General Secretary Rim Min Sik of the joint secretariat of Pomminryon on behalf of overseas side.
    They called for rejecting the outside interference through national cooperation and thoroughly implementing the joint declaration to achieve national reunification, the desire of all the Koreans.
    An appeal to the 70 million Koreans upon which the north, south and overseas preparatory committees for the grand national festival for reunification agreed was read out at the meeting.
    Noting that the unity of the whole nation paves the way for opening a bright prospect of achieving reconciliation and reunification by the concerted efforts of the nation and preventing the disaster of war and guaranteeing the survival of the nation and its prosperity, the appeal called for promoting the national reconciliation and unity and vigorously ushering in an era of national independence and peace. Whoever loves the country and nation should support the joint declaration and actively turn out to implement it irrespective of ideology, religious belief and political view, the appeal noted.
    The meeting was attended by Kim Yong Sae, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party who is chairman of the north side's preparatory committee for the festival, Ryu Mi Yong, chairperson of the C.C., the Chondoist Chongu Party, senior officials of social organizations, officials of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, officials of the scientific, educational, cultural and art and public health and press institutions and overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland.