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Panmunjom Tells Leader's Reunification Will

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

   Pyongyang, November 24 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected Panmunjom on Nov. 24, 1996.
    The Korean people take this opportunity to look back with deep emotion on the immortal feats performed by him opening the turning phase for national reunification with his energetic guidance.
    The Korean people underwent the worst economic difficulty due to the moves of the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK and continued natural disasters in the middle of 1990s.
    Then Kim Jong Il inspected Panmunjom with the revolutionary will to surely win victory in the showdown with the United States so as to defend the dignity of the country and to carry out the last instructions of President Kim Il Sung for national reunification without fail.
    In front of President Kim Il Sung's autographed dedication to the stone monument erected in Panmunjom, Kim Jong Il incorporated the three principles of national reunification, the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country and the proposal for founding a Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo advanced by the President into the three pillars, the three charters for the country's reunification.
    He clarified that there could not be change in the stand of the Workers' Party of Korea to realize the cause of national reunification in an independent and peaceful way.
    The iron will he hardened in Panmunjom gave rise to the enthusiasm for reunification in Korea.
    Since the historic north-south summit and the publication of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration in Juche 89 (2000), many eye-opening events have taken place in Korea.
    Sixtythree unconverted long-term prisoners who had been true to their revolutionary principles came to the north through Panmunjom in September 2000 and a ceremony for starting the construction of the Kaesong industrial zone was held in June 2003 as a symbol of the north-south economic collaboration.
    Conversation and contact, cooperation and exchange between the north and the south have been held in various fields of politics, economy and culture and the solidarity and unity between pro-reunification organizations become more brisk.
    The historic north-south summit in Pyongyang and the publication of the "Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity" early in Octerber this year were also provided by the iron will of Kim Jong Il to achieve sacred cause of reunification with the concerted efforts of the nation and to build a rich and powerful country.