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.