Valuable tradition of great national unity
KCNA
Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- A new epochal phase has been opened in the efforts of the Korean people for the country's reunification.
Since the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration on reunifying the country independently with concerted efforts of the Korean nation, the distrust and misunderstanding between the north and the south have been gradually diminished and all the Koreans are turning out in the efforts to reunify the country.
The idea of great national unity acceptable to all Koreans was provided nearly 70 years ago.
President Kim Il Sung founded on May 5, Juche 25 (1936) the Fatherland Restoration Association (FRA), the first anti-Japanese national united front involving all the patriotic forces, for the purpose of liberating the country with concerted efforts of the nation.
No sooner had the FRA been founded than it enjoyed full support from the entire Korean nation and developed to be an anti-Japanese, patriotic force embracing people of all social strata including workers, peasants, youth, students, intellectuals, patriotic landlords and local capitalists. It also strengthened as a pan-national organization with its branches at home and abroad and thus made a great contribution to achieving the cause of national liberation.
The idea of the great unity of the whole nation advanced in the 10-point programme of the fatherland restoration association is reflected in the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo. It has pushed ahead with the Korean people's cause of national reunification.
The precious tradition of great national unity still inspires all the Koreans in the north, south and abroad who value the interests of the nation and want the country's reunification to unite as one and turn out in the efforts for the reunification of the country, irrespective of the difference in ideology, political view and ism.
