• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Marked

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

   Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung put forward the five-point policy for national reunification in his historic speech "Let Us Prevent a National Partition and Reunify the Country" on June 23, Juche 62 (1973), when the south Korean military fascist clique agreed on the three principles of national reunification and then announced an anti-reunification "June 23 special statement" to reject the principles. Rodong Sinmun Friday carries a signed article on this occasion, which says:
    The five-point policy touched the heartstrings of all Koreans and displayed its great vitality in the development of the inter-Korean relations and the reunification movement for its noble patriotic intention, fairness and truth.
    The vitality and significance of the policy had been proved in sparking off the vigorous struggle of the fellow countrymen to remove the military standoff between the north and the south opening an epochal phase in ensuring a peaceful environment for national reunification.
    The fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas have defended peace in the Korean Peninsula despite the vicious war moves of the bellicose forces at home and abroad through their powerful struggle to remove the military confrontation from the Korean Peninsula and provide a peaceful precondition for national reunification under the banner of the five-point policy. In this process the north and the south reached an "agreement on reconciliation, non-aggression, cooperation and exchange between the north and the south", a foundation for ensuring peace.
    Recent years have witnessed dialogues and contacts between the military authorities of the north and the south standing in confrontation with arms, at which they are discussing concrete measures for restricting military training and exercises and preventing accidental conflicts and their expansion according to the unanimous desire and demand of all the fellow countrymen.
    The five-point policy showed its significance and vitality in turning the reunification movement into a nation-wide struggle.
    Under the energetic leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea the patriotic enthusiasm of the fellow countrymen has been enhanced and their demand for defense of peace and national reunification has grown stronger at home and abroad. And representatives of people of all strata in the north and south and overseas have come to sit together to hold a pan-national rally, a grand festival of the youth and students for reunification and other nation-wide events for reunification. In this process national reconciliation and unity and the reunification movement have been developed in depth and the June 15 era of reunification eventually opened in this land along with the idea of "By our nation itself".
    Last year the All-Korean Committee for Implementation of June 15 Joint Declaration was formed as a permanent nationwide organization of solidarity for the reunification movement embracing political parties, organizations and public figures of different strata in the north and the south and overseas. Recently delegates of authorities of the north and the south and delegates people of different strata at home and abroad gathered in one place to significantly commemorate the 6th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration, the article concludes.