KIM JONG
IL
LET US
CARRY OUT THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG'S
INSTRUCTIONS
FOR NATIONAL REUNIFICATION
August
4, 1997
Our people will soon greet the
52nd anniversary of the liberation of our
country, the historic event of the beginning
of a new life the great leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung brought to our
nation. On this occasion our people look
back with warm hearts upon the tireless
efforts and the great achievements the
respected leader made for the reunification
of our country for half a century ever since
the day of national liberation.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung strongly desired and
worked hard all his life for the
reunification of our country. He was unhappy
more about the national sufferings caused by
national division than about anything else,
and took all the pains and put his heart and
soul into the cause for national
reunification till the last moment of his
life in order to hand down a reunified
country to posterity.
To reunify the country in
accordance with the noble idea of respected
Comrade Kim Il
Sung is the revolutionary
duty and moral obligation of our party and
our people. It is a sacred national task
devolving upon our generation. No matter
what kind of difficulties and obstacles may
stand in the way of national reunification,
we must carry out the great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung's
instructions for national reunification and
fulfil the
responsibility and duty our generation has
assumed before the country and nation.
1
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung is the sun of our
nation and the lodestar of national
reunification. He devoted all his life to
the country and nation and made imperishable
achievements in the cause of national
reunification. By his preeminent ideas and
leadership he pioneered the cause of
national reunification, guided it
victoriously, laid solid foundations to
realize it, and opened the bright prospects
for the reunification of the country.
The question of national
reunification arose as a result of the
division of the country by foreign forces at
the end of the Second World War. The history
of half a century since the division of the
country into north and south is a history of
an acute struggle between the two
conflicting lines of reunification and
division, patriotism and treachery, and a
history of the victory of patriotic forces
that aspire after national reunification.
Ever since the division of the
country, the great leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung regarded national
reunification as the supreme task of our
nation, consistently maintained the line of
one Korea,
the line of reunification, wisely led the
struggle to reunify the country and
strengthened and developed the reunification
movement into a nationwide movement.
The line of national
reunification proposed and invariably
maintained by the great leader is a line of
thorough national independence for the
complete sovereignty and independence of the
country and nation and a truly patriotic
line for the development of the country to
be reunified and for national prosperity.
The question of the reunification
of our country is a question of putting an
end to the foreign domination and
intervention of south
Korea, establishing national sovereignty
throughout the country, linking again the
blood ties of the divided nation, and
realizing unity as one nation. If our
nation, which has lived as a homogeneous
nation in the same land for thousands of
years, remains divided by foreign forces, it
will be impossible to avoid national
misfortune and calamities and free itself
from foreign domination and subjugation.
Reunification is the only correct
way to establish the complete sovereignty of
the country and nation, brighten the
nation's dignity and honor, and achieve the
prosperity of the country and nation. The
line of reunification enjoys unreserved
support from all the Korean people because
it reflects the fundamental interests and
demand and unanimous wish and aspiration of
our nation.
In the complex and difficult
situation in which the U.S.
imperialists' occupation of south
Korea and the maneuvers of divisive forces
at home and abroad against reunification
were continuing, respected Comrade Kim
Il Sung maintained the line
of reunification firmly and consistently and
led the reunification movement on his
initiative.
While strengthening the northern
half of Korea
into a bulwark for national reunification,
the great leader ensured that the people in
the northern half gave active support and
encouragement to the south
Korean people in their patriotic struggle
for independence, democracy and national
reunification without forgetting them even
for a moment.
He thwarted the challenge and the
maneuvers of the divisive forces at home and
abroad against reunification at every step
and developed the reunification movement
steadily. It was our leader who developed
the nationwide struggle to frustrate the
maneuvers of the flunkeyist and
treacherous forces to keep the country
divided by convening the historic joint
conference of the representatives of
political parties and public organizations
from north and south Korea in the grim days
when "separate elections and a separate
government" were being cooked up in the name
of the UN in south Korea immediately after
liberation; it was our leader who roused all
the Korean people to the struggle to check
and thwart the maneuvers of the divisive
elements for "two Koreas" at a time when a
sharp antagonism and struggle were going on
between two lines, one for one Korea and the
other for "two Koreas", in our country; it
was also our leader who opened the way to
dialogue and negotiations between the north
and south which were in a frozen state,
ensured success in adopting the north-south
joint statement and agreements and opened a
new phase in the movement to reunify the
country.
The great leader, who had
immeasurably noble love for the country and
nation, passed not a day without being
concerned over the question of national
reunification, nor did he take a single
day's rest in peace. Comrade Kim
Il
Sung worked energetically
to strengthen international support for and
solidarity with the movement for national
reunification.
Thanks to his strenuous external
activities, the validity of our party's line
of national reunification was widely known
to political, public and press circles in
various countries, international concern for
the question of Korea's
reunification increased, and the world
progressive people's support for and
solidarity with the movement for our
country's reunification grew stronger.
Thanks to the great meritorious service
rendered by the respected leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung who adhered to the
line of national reunification and devoted
all his efforts to the reunification of the
country, the reunification movement
continued to develop, sweeping away the
obstructive moves of the divisive forces,
and became an indestructible force. The
ardent desire of the nation for the
reunification of the country is growing
higher with each passing day, and all the
Koreans in the north, south and abroad have
turned out for the movement to reunify the
country. The
development of the reunification movement
into a powerful nationwide movement as we
see today and its advance in the midst of
worldwide interest and support and
encouragement from the progressive people
prove a brilliant victory of the line of
reunification over the line of division.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung set forth the three
charters for national reunification which
clarified the fundamental principles and
methods of national reunification, and
provided the guideline that must be
maintained in accomplishing the cause of
national reunification.
The three principles of
independence, peaceful reunification and
great national unity are the cornerstones
for national reunification which manifested
the fundamental standpoint and fundamental
way of solving the problem of national
reunification by the efforts of the nation
and in keeping with its will and interests.
The three principles of national
reunification are the great common program
of the nation which the north and south
confirmed in their July 4 Joint Statement
and proclaimed solemnly to the public at
home and abroad.
The ten-point program of the
great unity of the whole nation for the
reunification of the country is a political
program to strengthen the motive force of
national reunification by achieving the
unity of the entire nation. This program
clearly shows the objective and the
ideological basis of great national unity
and its principles and methods in an
all-round way.
The plan of establishing the
Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo is a
blueprint that shows the full picture of the
state to be reunified and the method of its
realization. It indicates the basic method
of reunifying the country most reasonably
and smoothly on the basis of tolerating the
ideas and systems of the north and the
south. The three principles of national
reunification, the ten-point program of the
great unity of the whole nation and the plan
of establishing the DFRK constitute the
three charters for national reunification by
which Comrade Kim
Il Sung elaborated the basic
principles and methods of national
reunification into an integral system on the
basis of his great Juche idea and his
valuable experience of the struggle to
reunify the country.
The three charters of national
reunification are permeated with the spirit
of national independence regarding national
sovereignty and dignity as lifeblood and
embody his noble love for the country and
nation and for reunifying the country
peacefully by achieving north-south
reconciliation and the great unity of the
entire nation. The three charters clarify
the fairest and most reasonable and rational
way of reunifying the country at the
earliest date in keeping with the real
conditions in our country where different
ideas and systems exist in its north and
south for a long time and in accordance with
the entire nation's aspirations to
reunification. Because the great leader
provided the three charters of national
reunification, our nation is in a position
to develop the struggle for national
reunification with the clear objective,
direction, confidence and courage and to
realize its cherished desire for its
reunification successfully by its united
effort. The three charters of national
reunification are, indeed, the banner of
national reunification as well as the justest and
most realistic fighting program for
reunifying the country independently and
peacefully.
The great leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung rallied the entire
nation under the banner of great national
unity, prepared the driving force of
national reunification and strengthened it
further. Our nation is the motive force of
reunifying the country, and its strength
lies in great national unity. When our own
force of reunification is prepared, the
victory of the cause of national
reunification is assured.
Regarding
patriotism and the spirit of national
independence as the basis of national unity,
Comrade Kim
Il Sung made it the
principle of great national unity to
subordinate everything to the cause of
national reunification, transcending the
differences in thoughts, ideas, political
views and religion, and led all the people
aspiring after reunification, regardless of
their past records, to the way for
reunification and patriotism with great
generosity and magnanimity.
He put forward the slogan for
national unity, "Those with strength, devote
their strength; those with knowledge, offer
their knowledge; and those with money,
contribute their money!" and encouraged the
Korean people from all walks of life to help
towards the cause of national reunification,
with the mind of loving the country and the
nation. His thoughts and ideas of great
national unity and his noble love for
humanity and the nation were the source of
strength that encouraged the Korean
compatriots from all sections to set out
courageously on the road of national unity
and national reunification. Comrade Kim
Il
Sung attached great
importance to forming the all-nation united
front and energetically led the work of
uniting the reunification forces in the
north, south and abroad.
Basing himself on the experience
of the anti-Japanese national united front
during the anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle, he put forward the policy of
forming the great national united front for
the country's reunification and wisely
guided the struggle to implement it. As a
result, a great advance was made in the work
for organizing the compatriots in the north,
south and abroad under the banner of
national reunification.
When the movement for the
reunification of the country developed into
a movement involving all the nation and
their ardent desire for national
reunification soared as never before, a
Pan-National Rally representing the Koreans
in the north, south and abroad was held and
the National Alliance for the Country's
Reunification representing the reunification
will of the entire nation was born.
The formation of the National
Alliance for the Country's Reunification is
an important success achieved in
strengthening the motive force of the
country's reunification and developing the
reunification movement onto a higher stage.
Today the motive force of
reunification and patriotism is expanded and
strengthened on a national scale involving
the north, south and abroad and cemented
more firmly; it is advancing vigorously
towards the independent and peaceful
reunification of the country, overwhelming
the flunkeyist,
treacherous, divisive forces.
The exploits which the great
leader Comrade Kim
Il
Sung accomplished on the
road of the country's reunification is the
priceless heritage for our people and nation
and a solid foundation on which to reunify
the country. His life-long efforts dedicated
to the country and nation and his great
services to the noble cause of national
reunification and independence will shine
for ever in the history of our country.
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