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Valuable Exploits Performed for Great National Unity

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

   Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Sixty years have elapsed since the historic Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea was held.
    President Kim Il Sung, who worried over the tragedy of national split deeper than anybody else, put forward a proposal for convening a joint conference of representatives of political parties and public organizations in north and south Korea at the meeting of the presidium members of the Central Committee of the Democratic National United Front of North Korea in October Juche 36 (1947).
    The historic Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea was thus held in Pyongyang from April 19 to 23, 1948 amid the interest and expectation of all the fellow countrymen.
    The President in the conference stated that anyone who truly loves the country should categorically reject treacherous separate elections and surely unite, irrespective of party affiliation, religious denomination and political view.
    Though the composition of the participants was very complex and their political view and religious belief were varied, the April conference was the first historic grand national meeting of representatives of all strata in north and south Korea who gathered together with single patriotic will to check permanent split of the nation and set up a unified government under the banner of the anti-U.S. national salvation.
    He energetically led the struggle to achieve the great unity of the nation under the banner of the national reunification as the territorial division and national split lasted.
    The putting forth of the three principles of the national reunification--independence, peaceful reunification, great national unity--in July 4 north-south joint statement in 1972, the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo in 1980 and the publication of the ten-point programme of great unity of the whole nation in 1993 show the historical course in which the President's idea on the great national unity of the nation had developed.
    With his all-embracing and benevolent politics of boundlessly deep love and trust, he guided all the national members of all strata with different careers along the one road of patriotism.
    Today the President's cause of great national unity is being successfully carried forward by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
    Kim Jong Il made public in April, 1998 the famous work "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation", in which he clarifies the principled questions for achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country with the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.
    Thanks to his outstanding idea on the great national unity, the historic June 15 joint declaration and October 4 declaration, an action programme for carrying the former into practice in an overall way, were issued and a new era of reunification has opened to wage the national reunification movement more vigorously with the idea and will of "by our nation itself".