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Last Autograph of President Kim Il Sung

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

   Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung left an immortal autograph "Kim Il Sung, July 7, 1994" on a document one day before his demise.
    These words reflect the whole life of the President who put forward to reunify the country as the supreme task of the nation and performed undying feats in the efforts to accomplish the cause, withstanding all the ordeals of history.
    From the first days following the partition of the country, he had made unremitting efforts and wisely led the struggle for national reunification.
    He, with a deep penetration into the unexpected territorial division after the liberation of the country, clarified that the split of the nation was the outcome of the U.S. imperialists' Korean policy, not one caused by its internal contradiction and, therefore, the reunification issue was to realize the complete sovereignty of the Korean nation and to achieve the national unity.
    Basing himself on it, he consistently adhered to the line of one Korea, the line of independent reunification in the whole course of leading the reunification cause and set forth reasonable and correct policies and proposals in each stage of the development of the reunification movement.
    Early in the 1970s he made public at home and abroad the three principles of national reunification, thus providing a fundamental stand and way to solve the reunification issue to suit the nation's intention and interest by its own efforts.
    The Korean nation, therefore, came to have an immortal banner for the reunification cause, a powerful precious sword.
    Besides, he advanced the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo (1980) and 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation for the reunification of the country (1993). In this course, he made imperishable exploits to be handed down through the history of the nation.
    In the last year of his great life he energetically led the reunification movement.
    On July 7, Juche 83 (1994), he read the historic document related to national reunification as a preparatory work for the North-South summit to be held for the first time since the division of the nation and wrote the words "Kim Il Sung, July 7, 1994" on its first page.
    The noble intention of the President for reunification is being carried forward by General Secretary Kim Jong Il with credit today.
    Kim Jong Il, with a grand intention to open up a new era for the independent reunification without fail in the new century, arranged north-south summit meetings on two occasions to publish the June 15 joint declaration and its practical programme the October 4 declaration, thus making the whole nation hold aloft the idea "by our nation itself".
    Now the Korean people, bearing deep in mind the intention of the President reflected in the autograph, are vigorously advancing forward for the future of the reunified country that the President had longed for.



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