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Tradition of Great National Unity Successfully Inherited

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

    Pyongyang, May 5 (KCNA) -- The Korean people are striving hard to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country true to the Juche-oriented idea of the great national unity.
    The tradition of the great national unity which has been accepted and supported by all the Korean people was established 72 years ago.
    On May 5, Juche 25 (1936) President Kim Il Sung founded the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland, an anti-Japanese national united front body, for realizing and protecting the independence of the nation. The association embodied in an all round way the idea of the great national unity which calls upon all the classes and strata to put the demand and interests common to the nation above all and firmly unite as one irrespective of the difference of idea, political view and religious belief, property status and social position.
    The foundation of the association made it possible to closely rally the broad sections of patriotic forces including workers and peasants and firmly build up the internal force of the revolution in Korea.
    Thanks to the wise leadership and devoted efforts of the President the Korean people defeated the Japanese imperialists and accomplished the historical cause of national liberation with their efforts, united as one under the revolutionary banner of the Ten-point Programme of the ARF.
    Basing himself on the brilliant successes and abundant experience in solidly uniting the broad sections of patriotic forces through the formation of the ARF, the President put forward the "10-point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country"(April 1993).
    The tradition of the great national unity provided by the President is successfully carried forward by General Secretary Kim Jong Il on higher level.
    He made public various works including "Let Us Carry out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" (August 1997) and "Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation" (April 1998), thus providing a weighty guideline for implementing the President's instructions for national reunification with concerted efforts of the nation.
    He also provided historic north-south summit meetings on two occasions to open the June 15 reunification era, in which the people are turning out in the efforts for achieving the reunification "By our nation itself".
    Through the history and reality, the Korean people have born deep in their minds the immutable truth that the long-cherished reunification of the country will be certainly achieved only when they uphold the brilliant idea and tradition of the great unity of the whole nation.