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Meeting for National Reunification Held

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

   Kwangju, June 15 (KCNA Correspondent) -- A meeting for national reunification to implement the June 15 joint declaration was held at the Kwangju Cultural and Art Center Thursday. Present at the meeting were members of the delegations of the authorities and non-governmental organizations of the north and the south and members of the delegation of the overseas side.
    On hand were Kim Yong Dae, vice-chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, and Ri Jong Sok, minister of Unification, who are heading the delegations of the authorities of the north and the south.
    The meeting discussed the ways for all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to wage a patriotic movement for independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity and thus protect the dignity and sovereignty of the nation and the peace and security of the country and accelerate national reunification.
    An Kyong Ho, co-chairman of the All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration who is chairman of the north side's committee, in a speech referred to the great achievements made in the movement for national reunification since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, describing them as a historic step forward in the north-south relations.
    Stressing the need to implement the three principles of national reunification--independence, peace and great national unity--and the June 15 joint declaration, a programme for reunification common to the nation, regarding them as landmarks for reunification, he appealed to the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to closely solidarize with each other and make greater progress in the three-point patriotic movement.
    Paek Rak Chong, co-chairman of the All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration who is chairman of the south side's committee, in a speech underscored the need to boost dialogue and cooperation between the south and the north to a new higher stage despite whatever difficult situation. He called for working hard to avert a danger of war on this land, defuse the military tension and give momentum to the spirit of peace.
    He underlined the need to immensely broaden the width of great national unity and further strengthen exchange, thus lifting the atmosphere of national reconciliation and unity in all parts of the south and the north.
    Mun Tong Hwan, co-chairman of the overseas side's committee, said in a speech that Koreans are becoming one day by day since the publication of the June 15 joint declaration. The high wall between the north and the south is being pulled down thanks to the inter-Korean political dialogue and economic cooperation, he noted.
    Then followed speeches by delegates of the north and the south and overseas sides.
    They stressed the need to further expand and strengthen the June 15 All-Korean Committee and decisively enhance its function and role in order to dynamically conduct the three-point patriotic movement of independent reunification, peace against war and great national unity under the banner of the June 15 joint declaration.
    An appeal to the fellow countrymen at home and abroad was adopted at the meeting.
    The appeal said that to achieve "reunification in the spirit of by our nation itself" serves as a patriotic banner all the Koreans should hold high, calling on them to put the interests of the nation above all and set store by them and thus achieve the common prosperity of the nation.
    It also called for paving a wide avenue for reunification by struggling for national independence, protecting the welfare of the nation through a nationwide peace movement and bringing about a new landmark in the efforts for national reunification through the great unity of the nation.
    It is the most urgent task in the June 15 era of reunification to achieve the great unity of the nation, the appeal said, stressing that all Koreans truly desirous of the reunification of the country should work for the great unity of the nation, rallied around the June 15 All-Korean Committee irrespective of whether they reside in the north or the south or abroad, not asking about any differences among them.
    A meeting of co-chairmen of the June 15 All-Korean Committee and meetings of delegates of different fields and social strata from the north and the south were held on that afternoon while the participants in the meeting enjoyed an art performance given by artistes from the north side and the south side.
    A reception was given on that evening to mark the 6th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration.