Memorandum on Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Feats for National Reunification

Pyongyang October 10 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee for the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea made public a memorandum on the feats for national reunification performed by the peerless great men of Mt. Paektu on Friday, the 34th anniversary of the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo (DFRK) by President Kim Il Sung at the Sixth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

From the first day of the country's division Kim Il Sung set it as the supreme task of the nation to reunify the country and consistently adhered to the line of one Korea, the line for reunification. He put forward the proposal for founding the DFRK, the most realistic one suited to the desire of all Koreans for reunification and the specific conditions of Korea, and brightly indicated the way of national reunification, the memorandum said, and went on:

He advanced the DFRK proposal on October 10, Juche 69 (1980).

According to the proposal for founding the DFRK, the country should be reunified by founding a Federal Republic through the establishment of a unified national government on the condition that the north and the south recognize and tolerate each other's ideas and social systems, a government in which the two sides are represented on an equal footing and under which they exercise regional autonomy with equal rights and duties.

The proposal comprehensively indicates the issue of founding a reunified country including the principle and ways of building a federal state, nature and function of a federal state and duties of a unified government and regional governments and their co-relations.

The best way of reunifying the country as soon as possible is to found a reunified country through federal formula based on one nation and one state, two systems and two governments.

No sooner had the proposal been published than it aroused full support and approval of all Koreans in the north, the south and abroad and the international community.

Kim Il Sung wisely led the struggle to carry out the proposal.

In his famous work "10-Point Programme of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country" in April, 1993, he clearly clarified once again that a pan-national reunified state should be built to represent all members of the nation irrespective of party and group affiliation and strata, leaving the two systems and two governments in the north and the south as intact.

He worked heart and soul to provide internal and external circumstances favorable for realizing the reunification through federal formula till the last moments of his great life.

The memorandum said that leader Kim Jong Il powerfully aroused all Koreans to realizing the cause of national reunification. It continued:

He published his work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" on August 4, 1997, formulated the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the DFRK advanced by Kim Il Sung as the three charters for national reunification which integrally systematize and consummate the fundamental principle and ways of national reunification and clearly indicated the issues arising in carrying out the proposal for reunification through federal formula.

In 2000, in which fell the 20th anniversary of the proposal for founding the DFRK, he provided the north-south summit for the first time in the history of national division and brought about the June 15 joint declaration, the landmark for national reunification in the new century, to Koreans, an event to be specially recorded in national history.

He powerfully aroused the whole nation to the struggle to implement the June 15 joint declaration.

He provided again the historic north-south summits in Pyongyang in October 2007 and performed undying feats by making sure that "the Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity", the programme for implementing the June 15 joint declaration, was published.

The memorandum said that the cause of national reunification is greeting a new epochal phase thanks to the wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, adding:

In the New Year Address he clarified the principled stand of the DPRK to make a new advance in the movement for national reunification true to the behests of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il this year marking the 20th anniversary of the last autographs left by Kim Il Sung on the historic document on national reunification, and the ways for carrying out it.

The north and the south, in the June 15 joint declaration, recognized that there is commonness in the north-proposed low-level federation and the south-proposed confederation for national reunification and agreed to work for reunification in this direction. The south Korean authorities should respect the joint declaration, work hard to carry it out and thus positively respond to the aspiration of all Koreans for reconciliation, unity and peaceful reunification.

KCNA Slams US Arms Buildup

Pyongyang, October 13 (KCNA) -- The U.S. decided to make rotation deployment in south Korea within October of the Third Battalion of the U.S. 8th Mechanized Regiment stationed in Texas State, the U.S.

In the wake of this decision the U.S. Pacific Command blustered that the U.S. would keep the same level of commitment as now in order to deter attack on the Korean Peninsula and defuse threat from outside.

This is nothing but sophism to conceal the criminal nature of its rotation deployment and justify it.

The U.S. projected rotation deployment of its forces is a dangerous military move to ignite a war against the DPRK and keep its forces in south Korea for an indefinite period.

The U.S. has made such rotation deployment of its forces in south Korea for the last several decades while talking about someone's threat and provocation.

This year it introduced to south Korea several times a mechanized battalion equipped with M-1 A-2 tanks, combat armored cars, etc. and dozens of fighters including F-16 and F-15E.

It is well known that it worked out a "five-point scenario" long ago to put under its control the Korean Peninsula, a key element in carrying out its strategy for dominating Asia-Pacific.

Included in it are a surgical operation plan to repeat the Gulfs war and an all-out war plan to conquer the whole of Korea through blitz warfare.

It also envisages a scenario for aggression in the event of "internal collapse" of the DPRK, a psychological warfare and a plan for dangerous nuclear attack combined with precision bombing, electronic war and network attack.

It is the U.S. calculation that it is quite necessary to steadily bolster up its forces' capability for an actual war in order to carry them out.

As the U.S. made a lamentable confession right after the Korean war that it fought a wrong war with a wrong rival and in the wrong place, it is of more urgent necessity for recovering from its past defeat to increase the capability of its forces to get familiar with the local conditions.

That's why the U.S. is staging madcap war maneuvers against the DPRK every year by making rotation deployment in south Korea of its forces stationed in various parts of the world.

High-ranking officers concerned of the U.S. military are now claiming that the rotation deployment of its forces is aimed to bolster up their capability to carry out operations on the spot.

The fact that the above-said decision was made at a time when the atmosphere of dialogue is being created on the Korean Peninsula once again lays bare the true colors of the U.S. as a disturber of reconciliation and unity between the north and the south and peace.

The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it thinks it can attain its aim for domination through the deployment of its forces.

The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK are the elite army fully ready to beat back any aggressor forces at one blow.

The rotation deployment would put the U.S. in a more serious economic crisis and precipitate its decline and ruin.

The U.S. had better face up to the trend of the times, properly understand its unfavorable position and withdraw its forces from south Korea at an early date.

Legacy of Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong Il left as his legacy great exploits which guarantee the everlasting foundation and bright future of socialist Korea.

He raised the Juche idea and Songun idea as the eternal guiding ideology of Korea and as the great guiding ideology of the era of independence. Being endowed with the outstanding ideo-theoretical wisdom, he launched energetic ideo-theoretical activities from his early years, during which he systematized the revolutionary ideas of President Kim Il Sung, founding father of socialist Korea, as the integral system of idea, theory and method of Juche.

He published many works including On the Juche Idea (March 1982) to further develop the idea.

By developing and enriching the idea of giving priority to the arms, the idea of attaching importance to military affairs put forward by the President, to meet the requirements of the new era, he formulated the Songun idea and raised it as the invincible sword for accomplishing the cause of independence. Thanks to this, the Juche idea and the Songun idea became the great guiding ideology in the era of independence and the immortal Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. This ideological and theoretical wealth is the most precious legacy bequeathed by him for the Korean people and progressive mankind.

Kim Jong Il developed the Workers’ Party of Korea into an ever-victorious guiding force, the DPRK into a powerful socialist state and the Korean People’s Army into invincible armed forces.

The 50-year history of his leadership of the WPK was a period when he created a model of building a socialist ruling party.

Thanks to his energetic leadership, the WPK developed into a militant party, in which unitariness of ideology and leadership is firmly secured and the sense of organization and discipline is strong beyond comparison, into a motherly party, which takes responsibility for the destiny of the masses, into a veteran and sophisticated party, and into a party, in which inheritance of leadership is firmly secured.

In the end of the last century when socialist Korea was faced with the worst adversity on account of the collapse of socialism in several countries, the vicious schemes of the US-led imperialist allied forces to stifle it and the natural calamities that hit it for several consecutive years, he administered Songun politics in a comprehensive way, with the result that the DPRK demonstrated its might as an invincible bulwark of socialism and the KPA developed into formidable armed forces. By attaching top priority to strengthening the national defence capabilities, he strengthened the might of the KPA to the maximum through his incessant field guidance and turned the whole country into a formidable fortress by materializing on a new, higher level the policy of arming all the people and fortifying the whole land. Under his leadership Korea became a nuclear possessor, with which nuclear threat by the imperialists cut no ice, and the KPA displayed its might as an army strong in idea and faith and a-match-for a hundred army which is ready both for defence and attack.

Kim Jong Il turned the whole society of Korea into a grand harmonious family with his politics of love and trust, and the whole country into a political and ideological power in which all the people are united single-mindedly.

Thus, in the DPRK everlasting cornerstone was laid for accomplishing the cause of socialism, unperturbed by any upheavals of history. It is not coincidental for the Korean people to have held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the eternal General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and eternal Chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.

Kim Jong Il laid solidly-built foundations for building a thriving socialist country. He drew up a bright blueprint for building a thriving socialist power and created every condition to put it into reality through his devoted field guidance. By opening up the era of knowledge industry with the introduction of CNC technology into the machine-building industry, he led the effort to stoke the flames of industrial revolution of the new century across the country and make the overall national economy modern and knowledge-based.

Under his leadership in the DPRK an amazing reality was unfolded of switching over to knowledge economy; cutting-edge CNC machine tools are being mass-produced, Juche iron production system that uses no coking coal and scrap iron, a revolution in the world’s metallurgical industry, was established and modernization of the production of vinalon and introduction of DCS system of the fertilizer production through coal gasification were materialized. Many factories and enterprises including the Huichon Ryonha General Machine Factory and the Taedonggang General Fruit Processing Factory were newly built or renovated as world-class ones. The DPRK is now one of the few artificial earth satellite producers and launchers in the world. Everywhere including Pyongyang across the country has been refurbished in a modern way, unfolding the prospect for the Korean people to enjoy all the benefits of socialism.

The immortal exploits Kim Jong Il achieved by devoting his whole life will shine for ever as the most valuable legacy which guarantees the triumph of the cause of Korean-style socialism and the cause of independence of mankind.