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Pyongyang, Solid Base for Reunification

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- The grand festival for national reunification marking the 5th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration is going on in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attracting the attention of all the Korean people. Every nook and corner of the city is replete with warm compatriotism and the faces of the participants in the festival representing Koreans of various strata in the north, the south and overseas are expressive of the firm resolution to put a period to the tragedy of national division at an early date.
    Pyongyang is the city of historic significance where the cause of national reunification, the cherished aspiration of the Korean people, was pioneered and is being carried to completion.
    It was the venue of the Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea held on April, Juche 37 (1948) at the initiative of President Kim Il Sung to discuss measures for overcoming the crisis of national division.
    A consultative meeting of leaders of political parties and social organizations in the north and the south of Korea was held in the city from the end of June to the beginning of July of that year to adopt a resolution on establishing the all-Korea Supreme People's Assembly, an all-Korea supreme legislative body, and on setting up the all-Korea government with representatives of the north and the south of Korea.
    Many documents reflecting the just stand of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK have since been published in Pyongyang. Among them are the declaration of the Supreme People's Assembly (1955), the declaration of the Third Congress of the WPK (1956) and statements of the DPRK government (1956 and 1958). In 1972 the high-level political talks between the north and the south of Korea were held here to make public the historic North-South Joint Statement the keynote of which is the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and the great unity of the nation.
    There was in the city in June 2000 a north-south summit meeting, the first of its kind in the history of national division. It published the north-south joint declaration based on the idea of "By our nation itself" so as to open up a turning phase for national reunification.
    Many art works and edifices including the Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification, the United Front Tower, Thongil Street and Thongil Metro Station reflecting the ardent desire of the Korean people for reunification have been created in Pyongyang to arouse them in the efforts for national reunification.