DPRK Foreign Ministry Denounces U.S. Hostile Act

Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday condemning the U.S. for going extremely reckless in prodding the south Korean puppet regime to such hideous act as hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK. It said:

As already reported, a man who infiltrated into the DPRK to demolish a statue and monument in the DPRK, holy ones for its people, under the back-stage manipulation of the U.S. and south Korean puppet regime was arrested.

His testimonies proved that the U.S. is being deeply involved in the conspiratorial plan which the south Korean regime worked out by putting to use defectors to south Korea.

This is a token of the extremely vicious act of hostility against the DPRK prompted by the intention to stir up the people's mindset, break the single-minded unity and overthrow its social system in the end, a vivid expression of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The U.S. rallies hostile elements of the countries which incur its displeasure and prods them to the actions of undermining and disturbing those countries and uses the ensuing social confusion as pretexts for military interference and war of aggression.

It is a typical method the U.S. has employed in recent years to overturn social systems in other countries.

It is an open fact that the U.S. has a special item in its state budget to fund the conspiratorial organizations against the DPRK every year to escalate the anti-DPRK psychological warfare and the operation to disturb it.

The envoy of the U.S. State Department for the human rights issue in north Korea who visited south Korea in mid-June this year announced that the U.S. would offer 10 million U.S. dollars to the conspiratorial bodies active for the "disturbance of north Korea" this year.

It is not just co-coincidental that the terrorist was arrested in the DPRK soon after the announcement.

This incident is just a simple example of sabotage against the DPRK being conducted by the U.S. Even at this moment, the hostile elements bribed by the U.S. are hatching the second and third conspiratorial plans according to the U.S. scenario.

The hostile act aimed at demolishing the statues of the peerlessly great persons of Mt. Paektu amounts to the most undisguised insult to the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and the mental mainstay of its people, and physical attack on it. Thus it is a war action as serious as the armed invasion.

The prevailing situation proves that the U.S. has totally backtracked from the main points of the October 12, 2000 DPRK-U.S. joint communiqué in which it stated that it has no hostility toward the DPRK as well as those of the September 19 joint statement in which it confirmed its stand not to attack or invade the DPRK and promised to respect the DPRK's sovereignty and co-exist with it in peace.

Recently the U.S. authorities are often saying that it has no intention to take any act of hostility against the DPRK, but the situation clearly shows that the U.S. DPRK policy to antagonize its idea and social system and stifle it remains unchanged.

The consistent hostile policy towards the DPRK pursued by the U.S. is giving rise to the evil cycle of confrontation and tensions on the Korean Peninsula, making the prospect of denuclearizing the peninsula all the more gloomy.

The situation compels the DPRK to totally reexamine the nuclear issue.

Without the U.S. fundamental repeal of its hostile policy toward the DPRK first, it will be completely impossible to settle the issue of ensuring the lasting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. 

Anti-DPRK Subversive Activities Assailed

Pyongyang, July16 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea issued the following statement Monday:

The south Korean puppet regime, not content with hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, infiltrated defectors to the south to the DPRK being assigned duties of subversive activities and sabotage.

According to a relevant institution, it detected and arrested those who were going to destroy statues and monuments in the DPRK at the instructions of the south Korean intelligence agency.

The criminals, defectors to the south who betrayed their homeland, confessed that they were bribed by the U.S. and the intelligence agency into doing sordid subversive activities and sabotage.

All witnesses and material data available prove that not only the intelligence agency but the U.S. have been deeply involved in it and the U.S. directly approved and spearheaded the operation.

This was a hideous terrorist act against the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and a serious state-sponsored terrorism in breach of international law. This proves that the U.S. and the puppet regime have gone reckless in their subversive activities and sabotage against the DPRK.

The regime in league with the U.S. has so far allured and abducted DPRK residents and carried them to south Korea to use them for anti-DPRK smear campaign. Now it is even prodding wicked defectors to the south to intrude into the DPRK and conduct serious subversive activities and sabotage.

With strong U.S. backing, the south Korean intelligence and plot-breeding organizations rallied traitors and set up anti-DPRK terrorist organizations specializing in all kinds of subversive activities and sabotage. They are now providing them with huge funds and even subversive and sabotage means and infiltrating them into countries around the DPRK and areas close to the northern border aimed at terrorist acts against the DPRK.

The recent criminal case is an extension of the hideous provocation against the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and the height of confrontation racket.

The U.S. and the puppet regime are seriously mistaken if they think they can stir up people's mindset and undermine the single-minded unity of the DPRK through such sordid subversive activities and sabotage.

No hostile forces can ever break the single-minded unity of the DPRK no matter the earth breaks apart and the sky falls.

Whoever tries to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership which the Koreans look up to like Heaven will never be able to evade stern punishment.

The U.S. and the puppet regime's anti-DPRK subversive activities and sabotage are bound to meet shameful defeat, exposed by the sharp watchful eyes and vigilance of the army, people and security men replete with the spirit of devotedly defending the leader and annihilating the enemy.

Should the U.S. and the puppet regime persist in hideous terrorist actions against the DPRK, they will be made to own full responsibility for the ensuing consequences. -0-

Choice of the United States

The withdrawal of the US troops from the Korean peninsula has been a long-pending issue to

be solved since their occupation of south Korea after the Second World War. For nearly 70 years

the US has justified the stationing of its armed forces in south Korea on several ridiculous

pretexts.

The US stationed its troops in south Korea in September 1945 on an absurd pretext of

“disarming the Japanese troops” and divided Korea into the north and the south. It also started

the Korean war (1950-1953) with the object of occupying and dominating the whole of Korea,

hurling into the war its huge armed forces and even the troops of its 15 satellite countries in the

name of the “UN Forces.”

Having suffered in the Korean war a disastrous defeat, the first of its kind in its history, and

signed the armistice agreement, the US still schemed to perpetuate its troops’ stationing in south

Korea by forming the “ROK-US Mutual Defence Pact” after the war.

For several decades in the past when the Cold War constituted the foundation of the

international politics and served as an omnipotent justification for interventions and high-

handedness of the imperialist forces the US had advocated the need of stationing its troops in

south Korea in order to “contain the southward advance” of the former Soviet Union. After the

collapse of the Soviet Union, the US has styled its troops in south Korea a “deterrent to dispute”

and the “means of stability,” insisting that they are imperative for the security on the Korean

peninsula and other Asia-Pacific areas.

However, everybody knows that ever since the stationing of the US troops in south Korea,

acute military confrontation and tensions have been running high on the Korean peninsula, far

from peace and stability. It was the US which started the Korean war, one of the most

devastating wars after WWII, and provoked the incidents of the armed spy ship Pueblo, the large

spy plane EC-121 and Panmunjom, which brought the whole world to the brink of a

thermonuclear war.

Then, why does the US persistently refrain from pulling its troops out from the Korean

peninsula?

In a nutshell, it is because the US is ambitious for world supremacy. It has constantly pursued

an ambition to occupy all of Korea with south Korea as a stepping-stone and form the military

encirclement around the big countries including China and Russia with the Korean peninsula as a

bridgehead.

However, it is an anachronism. A “strategic partnership” is being established between the US

and the big countries neighbouring Korea, though they had confronted with each other in

ideology. The troops which had been stationed in some countries and regions are being

withdrawn and military bases abolished.

In the current of the times the question of easing tensions on the Korean peninsula and

improving the DPRK-US relations is posed as practical demand. What is vital is to put an end to

the US troops’ stationing in south Korea. Even those from the political and public circles and

military strategic brainpower of the US are asserting that the US troops’ stationing in south

Korea is unreasonable and thus they should be withdrawn.

A senior fella at a research institute in the US contributed an article to one of the US

magazines, stressing on the condition that north Korea possesses nuclear, the GIs tens of

thousands strong in south Korea could only be taken its nuclear hostage and, therefore, they must

be withdrawn.

The US cannot reduce the DPRK to submission.this is the summing up of the DPRK-US

confrontation continued for nearly 70 years. It must never forget the ignominious defeat it

suffered in the Korean war in the 1950s. It must also keep in mind that the Pueblo incident, the

EC-121 incident, the Panmunjom incident and all others it had machinated against the DPRK

were concluded with either its acknowledging submissions or offering apologies. The DPRK,

which inflicted serious defeat upon the US in the past with military hardware far inferior to the

US, has prepared a reliable nuclear deterrent at present. This is the fact worthy of special

attention for the US, too.

It is no more a possibility that a new provocation of the US on the Korean peninsula will lead

to its doom. The wars it waged against Iraq and Afghanistan are explained as the main cause of

the recent crises and weakening and crumbling of the US. That a new Korean war beyond

comparison will trigger the complete collapse of the US is a truth that is as plain as noonday.

There is another point that the US must see. As it cannot help but reduce its war expenditure

owing to a serious economic crisis, is it a wise policy for the US to keep on squandering money

on the maintenance of its troops and military bases in south Korea, anachronistic and trouble-

making?

The US must make a reasonable choice.

Mankind’s Cause of Independence and President KIM IL SUNG

 President KIM IL SUNG is not only the eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but also the great pioneer of the cause of global independence, enjoying boundless respect of the Korean people and the progressive people all over the world.

KIM IL SUNG provided the cause of independence with the guiding principle towards its successful accomplishment based on the Juche idea and Songun idea.

The Juche idea is the doctrine that represents the fundamental demand of man as a social being to live and develop in an independent way as the master of the world and his own destiny and gives light to the correct way for its realization of independence of the country and nation and the popular masses, and firmly ensures it by means of powerful arms.

By relying on the Juche idea and Songun idea, the President put forward the original ideology and theory on the world revolution. He developed the world revolution from the struggle for class liberation of the international working class to the one for defending and realizing the independence of the oppressed and exploited people of the world, and gave correct answers to all theoretical and practical problems arising in the struggle for realization of the cause of global independence, such as the national liberation struggle in the colonial countries, the socialist movement, anti-imperialist and anti-US struggle and the movement for reconstruction of socialism. He newly delineated and systematized the theory on the world revolution centering on the independence of the people – the nature and strategic goal of the world revolution, the common task of struggle of the revolution and its subject and object, min strategy, and the principle of forming the revolutionary forces of the world – which are the unchanging guiding principle for implementation of the cause of independence of mankind.

KIM IL SUNG set a practical example in the national liberation struggle in the colonial countries and gave full support to the oppressed people of the world in their struggle for national liberation.

He set out on the road of revolution in his early teens, and organized and led the 20-year –long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle (1926-1945) to liberate Korea. After national liberation he beat off the US imperialists, the ringleader of imperialism, to firmly defend the national dignity and sovereignty. It was a historic event that substantiated the truth that the peoples of the colonial countries can win the imperialists and rescue the destiny of the nation and realize the independence of the popular masses when they wage the armed struggle, believing in and relying on their own strength.

During the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle for national liberation, he rendered active support to the revolution in China and defended the former Soviet Union with arms. Even after the liberation of Korea, he wisely led the struggle of the people of many countries for national and class liberation.

His support and encouragement to the Algerian people is an example. The Algerians held up the torch of armed struggle for national liberation in Africa which was called the “continent of darkness” and the “colonial continent” in the past. Encouraged by the Korean people’s victory in the Korean War (1950-1953), the Algerian patriots formed the National Liberation Front in August 1954 and engaged in the armed struggle. The President saw to it that great material assistance including provisions was given to them and that the “Day of Algeria” and the “Week of Algeria” be designed in token of solidarity with the Algerian people. When the provisional government of the Republic of Algeria was founded in September 1958, the DPRK was the first to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with it. He also gave active and disinterested support and encouragement to the struggles of the people of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and other countries against colonialism and racism. President KIM IL SUNG energetically led the socialist movement of the world, holding high the banner of socialism.

He built Korea into a socialist power of independence, self-reliance and self-defense, and put great efforts in strengthening the international solidarity with the socialist countries and achieving the unity in the international socialist movement.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis from October to November in 1962, he made sure that the full support was expressed to the Cuban people, who were fight bravely against the US maneuvers of stifling and that the DPRK embassy staff in Havana and the Korean students studying in Cuba made every preparation for combat and share the destiny with the Cuban people. He even visited North Vietnam to greatly encourage the Vietnamese people and give selfless material and moral aid to them in the grim days when the US cooked up the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” in August 1964 to lead to Vietnamese war. These are only a few examples of his achievements in the cause of independence of mankind.

Thanks to his energetic activity, the Pyongyang Declaration, “Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism”, was adopted on April 20, 1992, signed by heads and delegates of 70 parties of the world, which was an event of historic significance in the strengthening the unity and solidarity between the parties aspiring for socialism and reconstructing the cause of socialism. At present the number of parties that have put their signatures to the declaration has increased to over 270.

During the period of over two years from the adoption of the declaration till the last time of his life he met heads and delegates of more than 120 parties and organizations, and devoted his heart soul to defending and rebuilding socialism and bringing about new upsurge in the socialist movement.

President KIM IL SUNG, who achieving undying exploits in mankind’s cause of independence, will be remembered for ever with the advancing cause of independence.

KCNA Detailed Report on Celebrations of 66th KCU Anniversary

Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday released a detailed report on the grand celebrations of the 66th anniversary of the Korean Children's Union (KCU).

According to it, the celebrations took place here from June 3 to 8.

The celebrations were held most significantly thanks to the noble outlook of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government on posterity and future, an outlook which calls for regarding the work for the younger generation as the most important affair. The celebrations proved to be a grand assembly of successors to the Songun revolution as they instilled into the people faith in the rosy future of thriving socialist Korea.

More than 20 000 delegates were selected from all the primary, secondary and branch schools across the country. They included Jongilbong Secondary School at the foot of Mt. Paektu, Panmunjom Secondary School near the Military Demarcation Line and a branch school on Jamae Islet in the West Sea. They were invited to visit Pyongyang.

Children of ordinary workers, farmers, service personnel, scientists and technicians who are exemplary in study and organizational life were chosen as delegates.

No sooner had this exciting news reached every part of the country than an unprecedented festive mood prevailed in the country.

Transportation was arranged under the deep care of the party and state to bring the KCU delegates to the venue of the grand festival. Special trains, planes and buses brought them to Pyongyang.

Parents, teachers, people from all walks of life and school youth and children warmly sent the delegates off with bouquets and garlands.

Pyongyang was busy welcoming the delegates.

Senior party and state officials and Pyongyang citizens warmly received the delegates.

Measures were taken one after another to ensure that the delegates took part in the celebrations without slightest inconvenience.

Certificates of delegates to the celebrations of the 66th anniversary of the KCU were awarded to them.

The delegates visited the statues of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill and the plaza of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to express thanks to them for having provided all the children with an ample opportunity of learning by enforcing the universal 11-year compulsory education system and brought them all sorts of happiness, pleasure and beautiful hope and dream.

They visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung.

A joint national meeting of the KCU organizations was held with splendor at Kim Il Sung Stadium here to celebrate its 66th anniversary.

The dear respected Kim Jong Un made a historic speech at the meeting.

After a KCU congratulatory group recited a poem for the occasion, an oath of millions of KCU members was made at the meeting to fully prepare themselves as children's guard boundlessly faithful to Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un taking delegates in his embrace enjoyed the concert "Love future!" given by the Unhasu Orchestra, the concert specially provided by him.

Kim Jong Un had a photo session with the delegates.

From the very day of their arrival in Pyongyang, the delegates were very pleased and happy to tour different places.

They visited the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt. Taesong, the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Memorial Tower, the National House of Class Education, the e-library and swimming gymnasium of Kim Il Sung University, the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm, Changjon Street, etc.

They were honored to attend a meeting of schoolchildren on successes made in the efforts to be knowledgeable, virtuous and healthy. They firmly pledged themselves to convey the noble loving care shown by the Generalissimos and Kim Jong Un who bestowed all blessings upon the younger generation and become exemplary members of KCU in the Songun era, bearing deep in mind the patriotic soul of parents who became heroes and labor innovators.

Bright and cheerful laughter of KCU delegates could be heard in the amusement park of Kaeson Youth Park, the Central Zoo, the Central Botanical Garden, Pyongyang Grand Theatre, Pyongyang Circus Theatre and other entertainment and service facilities.

At least 260 delegates were honored to receive birthday spreads sent by him.

He sent gifts to all the delegates.

All the blessed children left Pyongyang on June 9 amid the warm send-off of Pyongyang citizens. 

Let Us Struggle Resolutely to Implement the Three Principles of National Reunification

Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers′ Party of Korea
(July 14, 1972)

  The North-South Joint Statement, which was published on the fourth of this month, is getting a prolonged and hearty response from the public at home and abroad. Everyone in the north and south, and overseas compatriots longing for the reunification of the country, are in a state of great excitement and delight. They all ardently support and welcome the North-South Joint Statement and are eager to reunify the country at the earliest date by putting into effect the three principles of national reunification proposed by the great leader. Many governments, political parties and social organizations throughout the world are expressing full support for the North-South Joint Statement.
  The North-South Joint Statement is meeting with such a hearty welcome and support from all Koreans and the progressive people of the world because it correctly reflects our nation′s earnest desire for reunification and the world′s wish to see a fair settlement to the Korean question. Nearly 30 years of national division have brought
the Korean people untold misery and suffering and hindered a uniform development of the country. It threatens peace in Asia and the rest of the world. The high-level talks between north and south resulted in the publication of the North-South Joint Statement, which provides the basis for easing tensions in our country and for a peaceful settlement of the question of reunification, brightening the prospects for the reunification of Korea. The publication of the North-South Joint Statement is indeed a historic event that gives the entire nation hope of reunification and demonstrates to the world its will to reunify.
  For all this, we must note another aspect of the situation. At this time, when the whole country is bubbling over with enthusiasm for reunification and the atmosphere of national unity is mounting as a result of the publication of the joint statement, alarming moves are being made in south Korea against the fundamental spirit of the joint statement. Even though the south Korean authorities agreed to the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, and signed the North-South Joint Statement with the three principles as its main content, they turned on their heels after the publication of the joint statement and spoke against the statement, saying that they could not entrust their destiny to a piece of paper, and the longer the US occupation of south Korea lasted, the better. They have not stopped slandering the northern half of Korea, and continue to repress the south Korean people, who are struggling to reunify the country.
  Such words and deeds on the part of the south Korean authorities cannot be regarded as accidental. When called to account for their improper words and actions during the meeting between the north-south liaison delegates, held at Panmunjom yesterday, the delegate for the south is said to have made an excuse, saying that they had reflected upon what they said and begging our side to understand the complex internal situation in south Korea. We must not believe the excuse of those who try to keep the country divided and we should not be deceived by their tricks. Their words and actions have thrown cold water over the rapidly mounting trend of the south Korean people towards the country′s reunification after the publication of the North-South Joint Statement. Furthermore their words indicate their intention to nullify the North-South Joint Statement itself.
  We must be highly vigilant against the south Korean rulers who are engrossed in words and acts contrary to the fundamental spirit of the joint statement. We must see through their scheme clearly and be prepared to counter it. The south Korean authorities have been dead set against a north-south dialogue, clamouring for "unification by
prevailing over communism". Why, then, have they accepted our proposal for negotiations and agreed to the three principles of national reunification? They have not discarded the ambition of "unification by prevailing over communism", nor do they want the independent, peaceful reunification of the country. We can see that
the south Korean authorities have agreed to the three principles of national reunification and signed the North-South Joint Statement mainly for the purpose of gaining time necessary for the cultivation of "real strength" to "defeat communism and reunify the country". They are employing delaying tactics, knowing that they stand no chance of winning if they challenge us to a fight now, because the socialist force of our Republic is superior to them in politics, economy and military affairs. In other words, by easing the tension temporarily while negotiating with us and gaining time, they intend to cultivate their "real strength" for "unification by prevailing over communism" with the help of the US and Japanese imperialists. They also pursue a sinister aim of deceiving the south Korean people and further strengthening their reactionary ruling system by creating an impression that they are interested in reuniting the country through the seeming acceptance of the three principles of national reunification.
  Since the south Korean authorities are employing double-dealing tactics with an ulterior motive, the struggle to implement the North-South Joint Statement and to realize the independent and peaceful reunification of the country cannot help but be long-drawn-out and arduous. We must be ready for a hard struggle against the enemy.
  In our struggle for reunification we must direct the main effort to the implementation of the three principles of national reunification put forward by the great leader and confirmed by the North-South Joint Statement.
  The greatest success in the recent high-level talks between north and south is that the two sides have reached agreement on the three principles of national reunification set by the leader. The three principles are to settle the question of national reunification independently on the principle of national self-determination, free from foreign interference, to reunify the country peacefully without recourse to armed force, and to promote the great unity of the entire nation by transcending the differences in ideology, ideals and social systems. This is an absolutely correct reunification programme, a common reunification charter that incorporates our nation′s desire and will to reunify the country. Now that the north and south have agreed on the three principles of national reunification and pledged to implement them before the nation and the people of the world, our people can launch a dynamic struggle to reunify our country, guided by these clear standards and principles. These three principles form the touchstone that distinguishes reunification from division and patriotism from treachery. The three principles, the common reunification programme of the nation, provide us with a solid basis for leading the north-south dialogue in the correct direction, and guided by these principles, we can widen the road to reunification.
  We must firmly maintain the three principles of national reunification no matter how difficult and complex the situation in the future, and struggle to reunify the country on these principles. We must wage a relentless campaign against all practices that dampen the fundamental spirit of the three principles or weaken their significance. We cannot yield an inch on these principles. We must closely watch the attitude of the south Korean authorities and prevent them from distorting the three principles or deviating from them with bad intentions.
  What is most important in implementing the three principles of national reunification is to uphold the banner of independence, struggle to make the US army withdraw from south Korea and thwart the Japanese militarists′ scheme of reaggression.
  The foreign forces now infringing upon the sovereignty of our country and obstructing the country′s reunification are the US imperialist forces, which occupy south Korea, and the Japanese militarist forces, which are attempting to realize their ambition for reaggression in our country. There are no foreign troops in our country′s north. Now that the south Korean authorities have agreed to achieve the country′s reunification independent of foreign forces and free from foreign interference, we must strongly demand the withdrawal of the US troops. Up to now the south Korean rulers insisted on the need for the presence of the US troops in south Korea because of a "threat of southward invasion from the north", but that excuse does not make sense any longer, since the North-South Joint Statement has confirmed that the country must be reunified peacefully without recourse to armed force. We must demand that the south Korean authorities get the US forces out of south Korea to facilitate the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and abrogate all the aggressive and traitorous "treaties" and "agreements", including the "Korea-US Mutual Defence Treaty" concluded with the United States. In addition, we must urge the south Korean authorities to oppose the reaggressive maneuvers of Japanese militarism, which has revived under the patronage of US imperialism.
  Even though they have agreed to the principle of reuniting the country independent of foreign forces, the south Korean authorities make the preposterous statement that they do not regard the UN as a foreign force and that the "UN Forces" stationed in the "ROK" and the "UN Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea" are no foreign forces. Their assertion that the UN is not a foreign force is nothing but a pretext for justifying their obsequious, traitorous policy of dependence on foreign forces. This can be explained in no other way except that it reveals their real intention to cling to foreign forces in disregard of the fundamental principle of reunifying the country independently. We must thoroughly expose the falsehood of their allegation and their true color as traitors to the nation and severely criticize them for the distortion of the three principles of national reunification.
  It is important in implementing the three principles of national reunification to ease military tension and take realistic measures to eliminate the sources of war in our country.
  Reunification by means of armed force means fratricide. It conflicts with the interests of our nation and with the wishes of people all over the world. Our Party has consistently maintained that the country should be reunified peacefully and has made all efforts to do so. The aggressive policy of the US imperialists and their lackeys, the south Korean reactionaries, has imposed a three-year-long destructive war upon our people and has kept up military tensions in the postwar years.
  In order to ease military tensions and prevent war in our country, the north and the south must sign an agreement to refrain from the use of arms against each other in accordance with the spirit of the North-South Joint Statement. The two sides must also effect a drastic reduction of their armed forces after getting the aggressive US troops, the perpetrators of war, out of south Korea. In addition, they must desist from any action that might aggravate the situation and take positive measures to prevent armed clashes. Unless these practical measures are taken, the declaration of the policy for peaceful national reunification will become empty words.
  Although the south Korean authorities have agreed to the three principles of national reunification, it is difficult to believe their commitment to peaceful reunification. As matters now stand, the south Korean authorities are clamoring for the strengthening of what they call an all-out security system, claiming that the dialogue, to be successful, must be backed up by strength. They not only continue to slander the northern half of Korea but also conduct various military exercises in succession along the Military Demarcation Line, such as "emergency mountain exercises", "training in guerrilla warfare" and "training in river-crossing". All this uproar in south Korea since the publication of the North-South Joint Statement can only be considered an intentional act aimed at irritating us and aggravating the tension.
  One of the three principles of national reunification elucidated in the North-South Joint Statement is the achievement of great national unity through a transcendence of the differences in ideology, ideals and systems.
  In accordance with the spirit of the North-South Joint Statement we must demand that the south Korean authorities stop the fascist repression of the south Korean people, the repression being perpetrated under an anti-communist slogan, and democratize south Korean society. Our demand that they democratize south Korean society and ensure the people democratic rights and freedom is not an interference in their affairs, nor a demand that the capitalist system in south Korea be changed to another system. Under the pretext of the "threat of southward invasion from the north", the south Korean fascist rulers last year declared a state of emergency, arrested and imprisoned a large number of patriots calling for the country′s reunification, and stepped up the repression of opposition parties. Last year′s state of emergency was aimed at stamping out the reunification spirit, for the fascist clique was alarmed by the tide of peaceful reunification that had quickly risen among the south Korean people since the opening of the preliminary talks between the north and south Korean Red Cross Societies. The "threat of southward invasion" is only a pretext for declaring the stale of emergency. Since we have clarified on several occasions that we have no intention of invading the south, and have pledged ourselves moreover to peaceful reunification in the North-South Joint Statement this time, the south Korean authorities must naturally abolish the state of emergency they declared under the pretext of a "threat of southward invasion". They must also stop the repression of the people who demand the country′s reunification, and grant freedom of activity to political parties and social organizations. The principle of great national unity clarified in the North-South Joint Statement means uniting all the people, whether they are communists or nationalists, regardless of the differences in ideology, political views, religious beliefs or political affiliations, so long as they want the independent and peaceful reunification of the country. The south Korean authorities must, therefore, abolish their fascist laws, such as the "Anti-Communist Law" and the "National Security Law". Doing this is the essential requirement for the implementation of the three principles of national reunification and the agreements of the North-South Joint Statement. There is no reason why anyone should object to this requirement or deny it if he wishes to be loyal to the three principles of national reunification and the fundamental spirit of the North-South Joint Statement. However, the south Korean authorities openly say that they cannot abolish the "National Security Law", and a few days ago they brought to trial the patriots who had devoted themselves to the struggle for national reunification and sentenced some of them to death and others to long imprisonment at a time when the spirit of national unity had risen high as a result of the publication of the North-South Joint Statement. The trial itself was a criminal act, a blatant challenge to the three principles of national reunification.
  All the developments since the publication of the North-South Joint Statement show that the south Korean rulers have no will to reunify the country independently and peacefully and that they still hang on to the ambition of "unification by prevailing over communism". Their agreement to the three principles of national reunification and the North-South Joint Statement is no more than a deception to cloak their ulterior motives.
  The aim and intention of the south Korean rulers in employing double-dealing tactics are obvious, but we must make patient efforts to improve north-south relations and achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country. We must lash out at the south Korean authorities when they violate the agreements of the North-South Joint Statement, and at the same time strive to widen the door of negotiations, which are now being held with such difficulty and to develop them further. We must advance the talks between the north and south Korean Red Cross Societies, that began last year so that they allay the sufferings of families and relatives, who are scattered
over north and south due to the division of the country and help towards hastening the country′s reunification.
  What is important in the north-south negotiations is to expand and develop political negotiations. Before the high-level talks between north and south were held, the south Korean authorities were against holding political negotiations. Insisting on the so-called "stage-by-stage approach" in solving the question of reunification, they argued that humanitarian exchange, such as the correspondence by mail, should be realized first, then economic and cultural exchange, and finally political negotiations between north and south for the settlement of the reunification question. But their "stage-by-stage approach" came to nothing as the high-level talks were held between the north and south this time and as the North-South Joint Statement, the keynote of which is the three principles of national reunification, was published. Thus political negotiations have already started prior to humanitarian, economic and cultural exchange. In accordance with the agreements reached between the two sides, we must form and put into operation the north-south coordination commission at the earliest date, and through it discuss and settle important questions arising in the improvement of north-south relations and in reunifying the country. We must bring the north-
south dialogue to a successful conclusion on the principle of finding common ground between the two sides and of relegating their differences to the background. We must do this in the common interests of the nation.
  An important matter in the political negotiations is to negotiate with the south Korean rulers and at the same time deal with opposition parties in south Korea gradually so as to develop the north-south political negotiations on a multilateral basis. Only through the development of multilateral political negotiations can we make the struggle for the country′s reunification an undertaking of the whole nation and prevent the south Korean rulers from violating or fooling the three principles of national reunification and the North-South Joint Statement. We must develop a wide-range north-south exchange in the fields of economy, sports and culture, and realize contacts and exchange in every possible field so that as many people as possible can travel between the two parts of the country. People′s free travel, close contacts and extensive negotiations between north and south alone can remove distrust and misunderstanding resulting from the long separation and widen the range of understanding and further promote national unity. Mutual contacts and visits will also give people a better knowledge of the situation in the north and the south, as well as a better understanding of the question of the country′s reunification.
  The struggle to reunify the country independently and peacefully by implementing the three principles of national reunification is a serious one between patriotism and treachery, between the spirit of national independence and the idea of dependence on foreign forces. In view of the fact that the south Korean rulers are clamoring about the "confrontation with dialogue" even after they agreed to the three principles of national reunification, we must prepare ourselves well for coping with their provocation and their policy of confrontation. Experience shows that it is the stereotyped trick of the enemy to stir up conflict and step up tension whenever the tide is high for national reunification or whenever there are signs of tensions relaxing between north and south.
  Today all the developments require that we further intensify the education of Party members and other working people and prepare them well politically and ideologically. We must not sit back in the thought that the country will be reunified smoothly because the North-South Joint Statement has been published. When collaboration is effected between north and south in future and visits, economic and cultural exchange are realized, many south Korean people will come to see the north and people in the north will go to see the south. It is clear that the enemy, taking this opportunity, will resort to every conceivable scheme to spread bourgeois ideas and establish the capitalist system in the north. It would be a mistake if you were to think that no bourgeois idea could infiltrate into our ranks and no capitalist element revive in our society because all the people in the north are armed with the revolutionary idea of our Party and solidly united around the Party. You must bear in mind that bourgeois ideas can seep through and capitalist elements come back to life if we relax and neglect ideological education for Party members and other working people, and that our revolutionary achievements may be jeopardized in this process. We must further intensify the ideological education of Party members and the working people, as required by the present situation, and arm them thoroughly with the Juche idea, the monolithic ideology of our Party, and rally the masses closely behind the Party by working properly among the masses of all strata.
  We must also further increase the economic power of the country and bring the advantages of our socialist system into full play by accelerating the construction of socialist economy. The socialist system established in the north is incomparably superior to the capitalist system. The foreigners who visit our country unanimously agree that our socialist system is superior and even the south Korean delegates to the preliminary Red Cross talks admitted its superiority. However, we must not rest content. Our system is good but we must work harder in several fields in order to bring the advantages of socialism into fully play. In particular, we must further strengthen the material foundation of our society and provide the people with a richer life by building up the socialist economy so that the excellence of our socialist system is visible to everyone.
  In order lo realize the three principles of national reunification and speed up the independent and peaceful reunification of the country, we must see to it that a large percentage of the world′s public gives active support and encouragement to the reunification of our nation and denounces the obstructive maneuverings of the US and other imperialists.
  The United States stands behind the south Korean rulers, who speak and act against the fundamental spirit of the North-South Joint Statement and the content of the agreement. The US imperialists verbally welcome the North-South Joint Statement, but in fact they are not happy about the progress in the north-south dialogue and the rising tide in favor of the country′s reunification. With a view to getting out of their difficult internal and external situation, the US imperialists have proposed the "Nixon Doctrine" to employ the tactics of letting the Asians fight among themselves in Asia and the Koreans among themselves in Korea. They also demand that the south Korean rulers maintain the state of division, even though they are negotiating with the north. This is clear from the attitude they have been taking since the publication of the North-South Joint Statement. No sooner had the North-South Joint Statement been published than the US imperialists blatantly disclosed their intention to continue with the military occupation of south Korea. They said that they would go on with their plan of modernizing the south Korean army in spite of the north-south talks for peaceful reunification, and that they had no plan of reducing the US troops in south Korea.
  We must give worldwide publicity to our Party′s line of reunifying the country independently and peacefully and expose the maneuvers of aggression and interference of the US imperialists, who oppose the reunification of Korea and intend to continue their occupation of south Korea. Because of the US imperialists′ and their stooges′ deceitful fuss about "southward invasion" and their misleading propaganda against us, many people in the world lack a clear understanding of our Party′s policy of independent and peaceful reunification. They believe us to intend "reunifying the country through communization" by force of arms. We must give wide publicity to the three principles of national reunification and the North-South Joint Statement among the people of the world, so that they clearly understand that it is none other than the US imperialists and their stooges who increase tensions in our country and obstruct the independent and peaceful reunification of Korea. We must strive to compel the withdrawal of the US troops of aggression occupying south Korea in the name of the UN, and work for the disbandment of the "UN Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea". We must step up our external propaganda and foreign activities to encourage the progressive people of the world to bring pressure upon the US imperialists to get their aggressive troops out of south Korea and prevent them from interfering in the reunification of our country,
  We must see that the world′s progressive people guard against the Japanese militarists′ scheme of reinvading south Korea. The Japanese militarists want our country to remain divided into south and north for ever and they are simply watching for their chance to reinvade south Korea. The Japanese militarists will try to take south Korea again by hook or by crook if the US imperialists are driven out of there. We must reveal all the barbarous aggressive acts the Japanese militarists perpetrated in the past and expose their ambitions of aggression in order to isolate them from the people of the world and prevent them from creeping into south Korea once again.
  It is the most important and pressing task for the Party and the people to struggle in order to hasten the independent and peaceful reunification of the country. We must give the Party members and the working people a profound understanding of the correctness of the three principles of national reunification put forward by the leader and the independent and peaceful reunification line of our Party so as to encourage all of our people to make dynamic efforts for their implementation.

Monuments Calling for Korea’s Reunification

After the Second World War, Korea was divided into north and south by foreign forces. For over 60 years since then, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has waged an unremitting struggle for national reunification. In this course, peculiar monuments calling for Korea’s reunification have been built in the country.

Monument to the United Front

The Korean people were beside themselves with joy when they were liberated from the military occupation of Japanese imperialism on August 15, 1945, but their jubilation did not last long; they had to suffer from national division. Regarding the Far East as an outpost for realizing its ambition to dominate the world, the United States occupation the area south of the 38^th parallel of Korea by force of arms on the excuse of “disarming the Japanese army.” It schemed to conduct a separate election in south Korea in a bid to perpetuate Korea’s division.

Around that time Pyongyang, the present capital of the DPRK, hosted the historic Joint Conference of Representative of Political Parties and Public Organizations in North and South Korea on the proposal of Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), father of socialist Korea, and under his leadership. The conference, held in April 1948 and attended by representatives of 56 political parties and public organizations in the north and south of Korea, adopted the Resolution on the Political Situation in Korea and the Appeal to the Fellow Countrymen of All Korea. The recognize the “south Korean government” to be rigged up through a separate election and that they would set up a genuine unified government by themselves on a democratic principle. They also called on all the Korean people to turn out in the struggle to check and frustrate the character as it was attended by representatives from the middle-of –the-road political parties and public organizations in the north and south of Korea.

After the conference Kim Il Sung held a historic consultative meeting for national unity with te presiding members of the conference.

The Monument to the United Front stands on Ssuk Islet in the middle of the Taedong River which runs through Pyongyang, the islet where the consultative meeting was held. The monument is plastered with 56 granite slabs, symbolic of the number of the political parties and public organizations that participated in the joint conference. The back side of the monument is inscribed with the names of the participants, and the front side is inscribed with Kim Il Sung’s instructions, which read, “Never before in the history of our nation had so many representatives of  political  parties and social organizations with different  political views got together to discuss the destiny of the country and nation and reached unanimity. The north-south joint conference will go down for all time to come in the history of our nation as a great event which united patriots of all social strata behind the banner of territorial integrity and national reunification.”

Monument to President Kim Il Sung’s Signature

This monument stands at Panmunjom in Kaesong in the central part of the Korean peninsula. The Korean Armistice Agreement was concluded here. To look back, President Kim Il Sung’s whole life can be said to have been a life of struggle devoted to reunifying his country, except the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle for national liberation. For scores of years after the country’s division, he made numerous proposals for national reunification and led the entire Korean nation to the struggle for reunification. On the day before his death on July 8, 1994, he went over a document related to the scheduled inter-Korean summit talks, and affixed his signature to it that reads, “Kim Il Sung  July  7, 1994.”

The document and the signature were the last ones he went over and affixed in his life.

In order to hand his lifetime wish for national reunification down through generations, the Korean people built a 9.4-m-long monument made of natural granite and inscribed the signature on its 7.7-m-long panel.

In November 1996, Chairman Kim Jong Il of the DPRK National Defence Commission on an inspection of Panmunjom said that the country should be reunified at all costs, true to the lifetime instructions of Kim Il Sung.

Three Charters for National Reunification Memorial Tower

Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles of the country’s reunification, the 10-Point Programme for the Great Unity of the Whole Nation and the plan for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, which had been advanced by Kim Il Sung, as the three charters for the country’s reunification, thus providing a guideline for the Korean nation to adhere to in their efforts for implementing of the cause of the country’s reunification.

The Three Charters for National Reunification Memorial Tower stands at the entrance to Thongil Street in Pyongyang, symbolizing the unshakable determination of the Korea people to reunify their country under the banner of the three characters.

This tower was built in August 2001, when a new era of national reunification under the ideal of “by our nation itself” was being opened following the historic meeting of the north and south Korean leaders in 2000 and the adoption of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration. The tower, made of natural granite, consists of an arch-shaped tower body which depicts two women from north and south of Korea attired in national costumes holding up a mark symbolic of the three charters, and two pedestals on which group sculptures are embossed. Inside the tower body is a four-roomed exhibition of the precious stones donated by the Korean people from all walks of life in the north, south and abroad. The number of souvenir stones increased to some 800 after three years of the erection of the tower. An avenue runs across the archway of the tower body 30metres high and 61.5 metres wide, symbolic of the three characters of the country’s reunification and the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, showing figuratively how the bright avenue of Korea’s reunification is opening up. The tower weighs 7000 tons bearing the 70million Korean people’s wish for national reunification, and the gate of the souvenir stones exhibition weighs three tons, implying that Korea will be reunified by the efforts of the three-way solidarity of the north, south and overseas Koreans.

The aforementioned monuments instill in the entire Korean nation with confidence in and optimism of the bright prospects for their country’s reunification and inspire them to the struggle to achieve it.