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Brilliant Life Dedicated to Cause of National Reunification

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- August 15 is not only the day of Korea's liberation but also the day of the country's division. In August every year, the Korean people look back on the tireless efforts exerted by President Kim Il Sung to achieve the reunification of the country.
    The country's reunification was a lifelong cause of the President.
    From the first days of the national division, he, regarding it as the supreme task of the nation to achieve the reunification of the country, put forward most correct and reasonable lines and proposals in each period of developments. All his thinking and activities were related with the issue of national reunification.
    He convened the historic south-north joint conference in April 1948 and called for the unity of all the patriotic forces of the north and south. In the 1970s he made a breakthrough for inter-Korean dialogue and negotiations which had been deadlocked, and had the July 4 North-South Joint Statement, based on the three principles of national reunification, adopted to provide a favorable climate for the reunification of the country.
    In the 1980s and 1990s he set forth the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation so that the Korean people might strive for national reunification with a clear target and firm confidence.
    In the period from 1990 to 1994, he published various works such as "Let Us Achieve the Great Unity of Our Nation" and "Let the North and the South Open the Way to Peace and the Reunification of the Country in a United Effort," thus opening up a bright vista for national reunification.
    Even in the last moments of his life, he read and signed an important document related with national reunification.
    Today the cause of reunification, a lifelong desire of the President, is successfully being carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il at a higher stage.
    The historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was made public and the relations between the north and the south have turned into those of the Korean nation. The atmosphere of national reconciliation, unity and reunification prevails in all the political, economic and cultural fields.