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Three Principles of National Reunification

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

   Pyongyang, July 4 (KCNA) -- Thirty-six years have passed since the three principles of national reunification were made public.
    The three principles, key of which is independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, have provided the foundation for reunification indicating the way for accomplishing the cause of reunification. They, therefore, evoked a big response at home and abroad as soon as their publication.
    The principles, which show the most correct principles and ways for achieving the reunification of the country by the nation itself in conformity with the independent will and basic interests of the Korean nation, are unthinkable apart from the clairvoyant wisdom and energetic leadership of President Kim Il Sung for the reunification program common to the nation.
    With an insight into the actual demand for national reunification in Juche 61 (1972) he met the delegates of the south side who visited Pyongyang to take part in the high-level political talks between north and the south Korea and expounded the three principles of national reunification. And he saw to it that the three principles were announced at home and abroad as the reunification programme on July 4 that year.
    The principles reflect his noble idea, policy and leadership feats for national reunification. They should be consistently adhered to by the Korean nation in the efforts for reunification.
    The publication of the principles provided the fellow-countrymen with a fundamental guarantee to push ahead the reunification movement vigorously.
    Their validity, vitality and truth have been clearly proved today in the June 15 reunification era.
    The vital power and motive force of the June 15 reunification era when the Korean nation is striving to achieve the independent reunification with its concerted efforts are precisely the three principles.
    The adoption of the October 4 declaration, a practical programme of the June 15 Joint Declaration, has put the reunification cause of the Korean nation on a new historical stage of endeavoring to attain the independent reunification, peace and prosperity by the Korean nation itself.
    Though the fellow-countrymen live under different systems with varied ideology, ideal, political view and religious belief, they are supporting the three principles of national reunification as the fundamental guideline for the pro-reunification movement.
    The support of the Koreans at home and abroad to the June 15 Joint Declaration, October 4 Declaration and the idea of "by our nation itself" means their acceptance of the three principles.
    The United States which holds in check the trend of the June 15 reunification era and the pro-U.S. conservative forces of south Korea, its followers, are intensifying the anti-reunification moves than ever before. The key to vigorously advancing the cause of independent reunification lies in invariably maintaining and thoroughly implementing the three principles.
    The Korean nation will strive harder to bring earlier the independent reunification of the nation under the guidance of General Secretary Kim Jong Il, holding aloft the three principles of national reunification, the imm