Conference of North and South Korean workers held
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 14 (KCNA) -- A 2003 conference of North and South Korean workers for national reunification was held here on Thursday.
Attending there were a delegation of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea led by chairman of its central committee Ryom Sun Gil, a delegation of the Federation of (South) Korean Trade Unions led by chairman Ri Nam Sun and a delegation of the (South) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions led by acting chairman Ryu Tok Sang.
The conference discussed an agenda item "on the need for workers to take the lead in implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration".
Prior to this discussion, congratulatory messages to the conference from different organizations in the DPRK were introduced.
At the conference, a reporter and speakers recalled the fact that the council of north and South Korean workers for national reunification, the first solidarity organization of workers from the north and the south for the reunification movement, was inaugurated at Mt. Kumgang resort in march two years ago. The formation of the council marked a significant occasion in strengthening solidarity and unity between the workers in the north and the south and accelerating the 70 million Koreans' movement for independent reunification, they said.
The conference advanced the tasks facing the workers in the north and the south at the crossroads: whether the dignity and sovereignty of the nation are protected and the joint declaration is implemented to the letter to reunify the country or not and whether a holocaust of a nuclear war is allowed to threaten the nation or not.
A pro-reunification declaration of North and South Korean workers for the implementation of the June 15 Joint Declaration was adopted there with an approval of all the participants.
The declaration says that the national reunification should be achieved independently and peacefully, not by military threat or war method, but by the united efforts of the Korean nation and through its great unity.
The conference is a precious product of solidarity and unity between the North and South Korean workers and a proud achievement made in the course of national cooperation, it notes, adding:
Through it, we will further develop our reconciliation, exchange, cooperation, solidarity and unity and thus greatly contribute to the independent reunification of the country.
We will play the role of an engine in implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration and accelerating the independent national reunification and dynamically advance despite any obstacles in the way of reunification.
On the same day, meetings were held at Pyongyang Koryo Hotel between delegates of different sectors and regions from labour movement organizations in the North and the South of Korea.
