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Invariable Guidelines in Cause of Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The joint New Year editorial re-clarified that the three principles of national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--put forth by President Kim Il Sung are the immutable guidelines in the cause of reunification, and it is the unshakeable will of Kim Jong Il to realize reunification in our generation true to the instructions of the President. The three principles elaborate the issues on solving the issue of national reunification independently by the efforts of the nation without interference of outside forces, achieving the reunification in a peaceful way without recourse to armed forces and on promoting the great unity of the whole nation, transcending the differences in ideas, ideals and systems.
    The President advanced the three principles of national reunification he had conceived, on May 3, Juche 61 (1972) when he received the delegate of the south side who came to Pyongyang to attend the north-south high-level political talks.
    The north and south agreed on the three principles of national reunification and solemnly proclaimed them at home and abroad as the great reunification programme common to the nation through July 4 Joint Statement.
    Later he laid down the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, guidelines common to the nation that should be invariably adhered to in the efforts for accomplishing the reunification cause. He devoted his heart and soul to this cause till the last moments of his life.
    True to the President's cause of national reunification, Kim Jong Il, incorporated the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo into the three charters for the country's reunification.
    Under his wise leadership the historic Pyongyang meeting was arranged for the first time 55 years after national division and resulted in adopting the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.
    It is a declaration for national independence, a declaration for peaceful reunification and a declaration for the great unity of the nation, which is embodying the three principles of national reunification.
    From then on, the reunification movement of the Korean nation and the north-south relations has been developed on the track of independence and the new June 15 reunification era for the north and the south to march forward along the road of independent reunification through reconciliation and collaboration opened up.
    The slogan calling for adding brilliance to the June 15 reunification era by attaching importance to the nation, maintaining peace and achieving unity is enjoying full support and response on the part of the entire fellow countrymen in the north, south and overseas.