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Five-point Policy for National Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- The Korean people with deep emotion are recollecting the feats performed by President Kim Il Sung who solemnly made public the Five-point Policy for National Reunification at home and abroad 35 years ago and thus dealt a heavy blow to the separatist forces, today when the reunification fever of the nation is growing stronger in accordance with the idea of "By our nation itself".
    After the publication of the July 4 Joint Statement at the north-south high-level talks in Juche 61 (1972), all the Korean people were filled with faith in and enthusiasm for reunification.
    But grave difficulties were created on the way to national reunification due to the moves of the traitors to the nation to make the division of Korea a fait accompli in the international arena.
    It was none other than the President who saved the pro-reunification movement from the crisis and led the whole nation along the patriotic road of reunification in 1973 when the nation stood at the crossroads of reunification and permanent division in the history.
    He heard the news of the treacherous "June 23 special statement" of the then south Korean ruler, on his way of on-the-spot guidance. With a surging indignation, he authored the five-point policy for national reunification phrase by phrase on the running train in order to bridge over the prevailing difficulties facing the nation.
    He delivered the historic speech "Let Us Prevent a National Partition and Reunify the Country" four hours after the publication of the "separatist statement" on June 23. In the speech, he set forth the Five-point Policy for National Reunification, thus dealing an instant counterblow to the separatist theory of the anti-reunification elements and giving courage to the fellow-countrymen who aspired after reunification.
    The contents of the policy is to eliminate military confrontation and ease the tension between the north and south, to achieve multilateral collaboration and interchange between the north and south, to convene a Great National Congress comprising representatives of people of all levels, political parties and social organizations from the north and south, to institute a north-south Federation named the Federal Republic of Koryo (FRK), and to enter the UN as a single state under the name of the FRK. All the provisions of the policy fully reflect the noble intention and firm resolution of the President to prevent the permanent division of the nation and achieve the national reunification without fail.
    After the publication of the reunification declaration, the whole nation vigorously waged a struggle for the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, under the uplifted slogan "Korea is one!"
    In this process, the north-south agreement was concluded to be a foundation in ensuring peace such as "Agreement on reconciliation, nonaggression, cooperation and interchange between the north and south" and pan-national pro-reunification events including the pan-national rally and grand reunification festival of youth and students were held, with the result that a great advance was made in a national reunification movement.
    Manifold difficulties still lie on the road of reunification movement owing to the obstructions of the U.S. imperialists and the anti-reunification forces of south Korea. But the patriotic cause of reunification of the Korean nation is sure to emerge victorious as long as there are the immortal and great reunification programme advanced by the President and the banner of the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration which are the embodiment of the programme.