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.
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)
(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.
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 38th 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.
