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Aphorism on Great National Unity

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

   Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- "Unity leads a nation to prosperity and split leads a nation to ruin". This aphorism of Kim Jong Il indicates the clear-cut way for the members of the nation to shape their own destiny. A nation is a most solid and inclusive social collective and the community of same destiny. A nation, the main unit in carving out the destiny of people, presupposes the unity. If a nation is dismembered without achieving unity, the nation cannot keep itself as a social collective and a community of same destiny and will go to ruin in the long run.
    This is the truth shown by the history of the Korean nation.
    The Korean nation had keenly experienced the importance of the unity as a ruined nation. It could make a new history of national unity under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, peerlessly great man.
    The tradition of the great national unity is successfully carried forward by Kim Jong Il.
    He set forth the idea of the great national unity that the Koreans in the north, south and abroad should firmly unite for the country's reunification under the banner of patriotism, the banner of national reunification, transcending the interests of class and strata irrespective of differences in ideas, systems, political opinions and religious belief.
    The developing movement for national reunification proves the truth of this aphorism.
    After the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, the south Korean people from all strata hardened their will to promote the reconciliation and unity and to strive for reunification, visiting Pyongyang, Mt. Paektu and Mt. Kumgang.
    More than ten times of reunion of families and relatives who have been separated into the north and the south for scores of years, reunification festivals held in various places of the north and the south and joint entrance of athletes of the north and the south into international events--all these strikingly show that the Korean nation is realizing reconciliation and unity on the way to shape the destiny.
    The aphorism of Kim Jong Il implants patriotism in the hearts of the fellow countrymen who have turned out in the movement for the independence and reunification of the nation and inspires them to devoted efforts for the cause.