Meeting for National Reunification Held
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- A meeting for national reunification was held at the April 25 House of Culture on June 15 to mark the fifth anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration. Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, representatives of different circles of the north and south and overseas who are attending the grand festival for national reunification including Kim Ki Nam, vice-chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, and Jong Tong Yong, minister of Unification, who are respectively leading the delegations of the north and south authorities.
Keynote reports were made by representatives of the north and south and overseas sides.
An Kyong Ho, chairman of the North Side's Preparatory Committee, said that all the Koreans in the north and the south and overseas should hold higher the banner of "By our nation itself", the core of the joint declaration, as it lays down fundamental principles and ways of achieving national reunification.
Underscoring the need for the north and the south to consider the idea of "By our nation itself" as a way of existence common to the nation and a powerful weapon for protecting the interests of the nation, turn antagonism and confrontation into reconciliation and unity and counter the war forces in unity so as to protect the well-being and peace of the nation, An called for further developing the "June 15 Joint Committee" into an organization for the nationwide movement for reunification.
He proposed to fix June 15, the day of the publication of the historic June 15 joint declaration that heralded a new start of the movement for independent reunification, as Day of "By our nation itself" and have a joint national celebration of the day, declaring that the north would always join hands with all the political parties, organizations and personages in the south and overseas in the efforts to implement the joint declaration.
Paek Rak Chong, chairman of the South Side's Preparatory Committee, referred to the achievements made in the movement for reunification in the past five years after the publication of the June 15 joint declaration. The south-north relations have made big progress but the threat of war and military tension have been escalated on this land, hamstringing the efforts for national reconciliation and cooperation, he added.
In order to avert a war, defuse the military tension and ensure peace on this land, the 70 million Koreans should turn out in a nationwide struggle to preserve peace from the threat of war and military confrontation, he said.
He called on all the Koreans to achieve national reconciliation and cooperation and peace and reunification of the country by their own efforts, as indicated by the joint declaration.
Kwak Tong Ui, co-chairman of the Overseas Side's Preparatory Committee, said that the on-going festival constitutes a giant stride forward in demonstrating the Koreans' unshakable will to implement the joint declaration and ending the tragic division and creating a new history of national prosperity by pooling their efforts in the idea of "By our nation itself" in the drive to implement the declaration.
Whoever loves the country and the nation should pool efforts and turn out in a sacred struggle to protect peace from a war, he said, and continued: A key to removing dark clouds of war and defending peace on this land lies in realizing national cooperation and the strength to fling the big gate to peaceful reunification also lies in national cooperation.
He underscored the need for all the Koreans to turn out in the struggle to achieve national cooperation, an engine for independent reunification.
Vice-Chairperson of the North Side's Preparatory Committee Pak Sun Hui, Co-representative of the South Side's Preparatory Committee Jong Hyon Baek, Co-Chairman of the Overseas Side's Preparatory Committee Mun Tong Hwan in their speeches said that over the last five years since the publication of the joint declaration the Koreans have achieved reconciliation and cooperation, paving the way for peace and reunification of the country.
If we remain weak, we cannot protect the sovereignty and dignity of the country and nation or its people's right to existence nor can we achieve national reunification, they said, and went on: Whoever truly wants peace of the country and the security of the nation should more firmly join hands with fellow countrymen, instead of cooperating with foreign forces.
A declaration for national reunification was adopted at the meeting.
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