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Anniversary of April Joint Conference Marked

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

   Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at a plaza of the United Front Tower in the Ssuksom Revolutionary Site on Monday to mark the 60th anniversary of the historic Joint Conference of Representatives of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea.
    Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, Kim Ki Nam, Vice-Premier Ro Tu Chol, the chairpersons of the friendly parties and other officials concerned, recipients of National Reunification Prize, former unconverted long-term prisoners who are pro-reunification patriotic fighters, officials of national institutions, people from all walks of life in Pyongyang and overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland.
    Yang Hyong Sop, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, in a report said that the joint conference held in Pyongyang on the initiative of President Kim Il Sung and under his guidance in April Juche 37 (1948) was a historic grand meeting of the nation for achieving the great national unity under the banner of reunification and patriotism to reject the outsiders' interference and domination and save the destiny of the country and the nation.
    Recalling that thanks to the outstanding guidance of Kim Il Sung and his energetic activities the joint conference took place in a grand style in Pyongyang from April 19 to 23 in Juche 37 (1948), the reporter continued:
    The President at the conference made a historic report titled "The Political Situation in North Korea" on April 21.
    In the report he made a lucid analysis of the political situation prevailing inside and outside the country and clearly indicated tasks facing the Koreans in the north and the south to foil the separatist moves of the U.S. imperialists and set up a unified democratic government. In the wake of the conference the patriotic and democratic forces in the north and the south under his wise leadership courageously turned out in the struggle to shatter the plots to hold a treacherous "separate election" and set up a "separate government," dealing heavy blows at the moves of the U.S. imperialists and their stooges to split the nation and laying a solid foundation for founding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the glorious motherland.
    It was the imperishable great exploit performed by the President in his efforts to achieve the reunification of the country that he indicated the fundamental principles and ways for it.
    His Juche-based idea of great national unity and cause of national reunification are being firmly upheld and successfully carried forward and accomplished by General Secretary Kim Jong Il. A particular mention should be made of the fact that Kim Jong Il provided the historic Pyongyang meeting in June Juche 89(2000) and the June 15 joint declaration and made sure that the October 4 declaration, a programme for fully implementing the above-said declaration, was published last year. This constitutes an undying great exploit as it brought about a new phase for the development of the inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity.
    South Koreans from all walks of life and other Koreans at home and abroad should resolutely foil the anti-reunification forces' acts of denying the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration and open up a new phase of inter-Korean relations and peace and prosperity through their concerted efforts.
    The reporter called on all Koreans in the north and the south of Korea and abroad to wage a dynamic anti-U.S. and anti-war struggle to remove the root cause of hindering the national unity and reunification once and for all, resolutely frustrate the south Korean conservative ruling forces' anti-reunification policy and their moves for confrontation with the DPRK and positively support and uphold the great Songun policy.