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Tradition of Great National Unity

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- Nearly seven decades have passed since the historical tradition of great national unity originated in Korea. President Kim Il Sung founded in Donggang the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland on May 5, Juche 25 (1936) in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle out of the patriotic desire to achieve the liberation of the country by the efforts of the Korean people themselves. It was the first organization of anti-Japanese national united front involving workers, peasants, intellectuals, youth and students and even national capitalists and believers of conscience.
    After its foundation, it expanded its organizations across the country and took deep roots in broad areas of Manchuria including East Manchuria where many Koreans lived as well as in different parts of Japan.
    With a membership of at least two hundred thousand it rallied masses in its ranks under the leadership of Kim Il Sung to greatly contribute to winning national liberation by defeating the Japanese imperialists.
    The founding of the association which united the masses of all walks of life differing in social and class status, ism and idea and religion under the banner of patriotism was a significant event that established the tradition of unity of the whole nation.
    This proud tradition of great national unity established by Kim Il Sung is being successfully carried forward today with leader Kim Jong Il at the top post of the revolution. Kim Jong Il is wisely guiding the work for accomplishing the cause of national reunification with the united strength of the nation, fully inheriting Kim Il Sung's idea of great national unity and his feats in achieving it and precious experience and tradition of struggle.
    Great national unity is the great foundation of the reunification of the country.
    By putting forward the five-point policy of great national unity Kim Jong Il provided a programmatic guideline of reunification. And he, with the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration that is throwing its rays in the history of the nation's reunification movement, made the whole nation turn out in the struggle for independent reunification, guided by the idea of "By Our Nation Itself".
    Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il to accomplish the cause of reunification with the might of great national unity, a new phase previously unknown in the inter-Korean relations and the history of the national reunification movement opened and unprecedented achievements and changes have been recorded.
    The Korean people will achieve without fail the cause of national reunification, the greatest desire of the nation, with the powerful weapon of great national unity which has all along registered victories and glory in the history of the revolutionary struggle.