KIM IL SUNG
LET
US ACHIEVE THE GREAT UNITY OF OUR NATION
Talk
to the Senior Officials of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the
Fatherland and
the
Members of the North Side’s Headquarters
of
the Pan-National Alliance for the Country’s
Reunification
August
1, 1991
The Pan-National Rally for the Peace and
Reunification of the Fatherland was held last year on the occasion of the 45th
anniversary of national liberation, and this year the second Pan-National Rally
is to be held on August 15, too. I think it is a good thing that the
Pan-National Rally and the various joint national festivals for reunification
are held on the memorable occasion of the anniversary of national liberation. We
must work hard to make the forthcoming events a success and a major occasion for
achieving great national unity and hastening the reunification of the
country.
Achieving the reunification of our
country means linking the nation’s severed blood vessels, bringing about
national harmony and gaining national independence across the country. In other
words, it concerns the fate of our fellow-countrymen; it is a matter vital to
our nation.
As is well known, our country was
divided not because of contradictions within our nation; its division was
imposed upon it exclusively by foreign forces. After the end of the Second
World War the Korean question was dealt with to suit the interests of the great
powers, contrary to our nation’s desire and will to be independent, and the
United States occupied south Korea. As a result, Korea was
divided into north and south. It is because of continued interference and
obstruction by foreign forces that Korea has not yet achieved her
reunification.
In the half a century since our country
was divided not a day has passed without our nation’s misfortunes and sufferings
weighing on my mind, and without my thinking how the country can be reunified.
We must not leave the task of national reunification to the younger generation.
We must reunify the country in our lifetime. National reunification is the
supreme desire of the Korean people and there is no more pressing task for them
than to reunify their country.
The reunification of our country must be
achieved independently and in a peaceful way, and this
calls on us to achieve the great unity of the whole nation. The
realization of the independent and peaceful reunification of the country is
inconceivable without great national unity. Great national unity is a
fundamental precondition for the achievement of the independent and peaceful
reunification of our country, as well as the most essential aspect of it. The
first and foremost task in achieving national reunification is to achieve the
great unity of our nation.
Whatever movement we may join, we can
emerge victorious only when we strengthen the driving force and increase its
role. This is an essential revolutionary truth which has been our philosophy and
faith throughout the long revolutionary struggle.
The driving force for national
reunification is the entire Korean nation. The reunification of the country is
our nation’s cause of independence, and it can be achieved by the efforts of
our nation alone. Every Korean person is responsible for national reunification
and must bear his or her responsibility and play his or her allotted role in the
struggle to reunify the country. If our nation, as the driving force for
national reunification, is to fulfil its
responsibility and role, it must be united firmly as one. The strength of the
driving force is precisely the strength of its unity. The decisive guarantee for
the independent and peaceful reunification of the country lies in the
achievement of the unity of the whole nation and in strengthening the driving
force for reunification.
All the Korean people must unite closely
under the banner of great national unity, in the spirit of patriotism and
national independence.
A nation is a solid community which has
been formed and developed historically, and it is a unit of social life.
Historically, people have lived with their country and nation as a unit and have
shaped their destiny through a combined effort. The question of a nation
essentially means the question of achieving and defending its independence.
Independence is
the lifeblood of the people as well as of their country and nation. If a man is
deprived of his independence, he is as good as dead; likewise, if a nation is
deprived of its independence, its existence and development is
inconceivable.
It is only when the independence of a
country and a nation is achieved that the independence of individuals can be
realized; no one can escape the fate of slavery if his country and nation is
enslaved, for the life of an individual as a member of the nation exists in the
life of his or her country and nation. It is precisely for this reason that,
although a nation consists of different classes and strata, people love their
country, value their nation’s independence and fight in unity for the
independence of their country and nation. People love their fatherland and value
the independence of their nation. These feelings are common to every member of a
nation.
Originally, nationalism came about as a
progressive idea promoting national interests. Under the banner of nationalism,
the newly-emergent bourgeoisie took the lead in the nationalist movement, yet
nationalism could not be regarded as an ideology of the capitalist class from
the outset. During the period of the bourgeois nationalist movement against
feudalism the interests of the popular masses were basically identical with
those of the newly-emergent bourgeoisie and, accordingly, nationalism reflected
the common interests of the nation. Subsequently, as capitalism developed and
the bourgeoisie became the reactionary ruling class, nationalism was reduced to
the ideological means for the capitalist class to defend its interests.
Bourgeois nationalism conflicts with genuine nationalism which truly promotes
the interests of the nation. For idlers, who may be called the parasites of the
nation, to pose as nationalists is nothing but a deception. Only he who does
some work, mental or physical, which is beneficial to the nation, can be a
genuine nationalist.
In our country, the land of a
homogeneous nation, genuine nationalism means precisely patriotism. Our nation,
which has inherited the same blood generation after generation and built up a
brilliant national culture with the same language on the same territory, is a
nation with a strong spirit of patriotism and independence. Our people have
always loved their fatherland ardently and fought strongly to defend the
independence of their country and nation. This is a proud tradition of our
nation.
My father put forward the idea of Jiwon (aim high—Tr.) and educated me in patriotism
and in the spirit of national independence. So I set out on the road of struggle
with a resolution to dedicate my whole life to saving the country and nation. My
revolutionary activities began with the struggle for national liberation and in
the course of the struggle to establish the identity of the nation, the identity
of the revolution, I have evolved the Juche idea, the
guiding idea of our revolution. I have been fighting all my life for the
independence, sovereignty and prosperity of our nation, for the independence of
the masses of the people. I am fighting for the independence not only of our
people but also of people throughout the world, and for the abolition of
exploitation and oppression of man by man not only in our country but also
throughout the world. Just as it is inconceivable for a person who does not love
his parents and brothers to love his country and nation, so it is unthinkable
for a person who is indifferent to the destiny of his nation to be loyal to the
world revolution. As I always say, only a genuine patriot can be a true
internationalist who is loyal to the world revolution. I can say that, in this
sense, I am a communist and patriot as well as an
internationalist.
At the present stage of historical
development, when the destiny of the popular masses is being shaped with the
country and nation as the basic unit, the whole nation must firmly establish the
identity of the nation and fight in unity for its common interests and
prosperity. We must not only achieve national reunification on the basis of
great national unity but also, after the country is reunified, build an ideal
society by relying on the united efforts of the entire nation so that all the
people enjoy equally unbounded happiness on this land.
A nation must regard its independence as
its lifeblood, advocate and realize its independence by united effort and
achieve its common prosperity. I can say that this is our Juche view on the
nation.
We have firmly adhered to the principle
of always believing in and relying on the combined strength of the people both
in the struggle against imperialism and in the struggle for the building of
socialism. We have always given top priority to national interests and relied
on the combined strength of the people in the struggle. We can say that this is
the secret of the victory we have achieved in the revolution and
construction.
We emerged victorious from the
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle for national liberation because the
guerrillas and the people forged ties of kinship and all the anti-Japanese
patriotic forces fought in close unity. During the anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle we brought together patriotic people from all walks of life into the
anti-Japanese national united front and fought Japanese imperialism with the
united strength of the nation. The Association for the Restoration of the
Fatherland, formed in 1936, was an anti-Japanese national united front
comprising broad sections of patriotic people who opposed Japanese imperialism
and aspired to national independence. This association united all the
anti-Japanese patriotic forces from all walks of life including communists,
nationalists, workers, peasants, intellectuals, young people and students, as
well as conscientious national capitalists and religious men. We established
the tradition of national unity in the course of waging the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle, relying on the broad-based anti-Japanese national united
front.
In the struggle to build a new society
after national liberation, too, we channelled our
efforts firstly into achieving great national unity. In the speech I addressed
to the people after national liberation, I called upon all the people who loved
their country and nation and democracy to unite as one and make a positive
contribution to nation-building, those with strength giving their strength,
those with knowledge contributing their knowledge and those with money offering
their money. We have pushed forward dynamically with the building of a
democratic new state and with socialist construction, relying on the combined
strength of all the people. Our socialist construction aims at enabling all our
people to lead happy and worthwhile lives in a society free from exploitation
and oppression. The socialist society we are building is socialism centred on the popular masses. Socialism centred on the popular masses means a genuine society for
the people where all the people are the masters of the country and everything in
society serves the popular masses. We need not build socialism which does not
serve the popular masses, and we cannot build socialism centred on the popular masses without uniting the popular
masses.
The aim of the reunification of our
nation is to realize the independence of our nation, to achieve the common
development and prosperity of the nation and to ensure that all the Korean
people lead happy and worthy lives in one reunified land. It is natural, therefore, that all the people should combine their
will and rally as one in the struggle for national reunification, and this is
fully possible.
The Joint Conference of the
Representatives of Political Parties and Social Organizations of North and
South Korea was held in
Pyongyang in
1948. We called this conference to discuss the pressing save-the-nation measures
and national reunification. The conference was attended by representatives of
almost all the political parties and social organizations of south
Korea, except Syngman
Rhee’s party. Kim Ku, the leader of the “Korean
Independence Party”, too, attended the conference. In pre-liberation years when
he was in the “Provisional Government in Shanghai” Kim Ku had regarded communists as his
enemies. But he attended the conference having accepted our just proposal to
meet and have a heart-to-heart discussion on important questions concerning the
destiny of the nation as members of the same nation, and he eventually took the
road of alliance and coalition with us communists. He had no clear idea of what
a genuine communist was, but he was a patriot. He made a fine speech at the
north-south joint conference and after his return to south
Korea he fought for national unity and
reunification before being assassinated by the Yankees and their stooges. The
historic April north-south joint conference served as clear proof that despite
differences in ideologies and ideals, political views and religious beliefs all
people can unite in the struggle for the common cause of the
nation.
If the whole nation fights in concert,
drawing on the traditions and experience of national unity built up in the
course of the struggle to realize our nation’s independence, we shall not fail
to achieve national reunification, the supreme task of the
nation.
The concert and unity of the whole
nation means the national reunification we desire. What is most important in national reunification is not the
procedures or methods but the achievement of the genuine harmony and unity of
the whole nation. If all Korean people in the north, south and overseas unite
their minds and, on this basis, attain great national unity the most important
problem in achieving national reunification will have been solved and then other
problems can be resolved easily.
In recent years signal progress has been
made in our efforts to bring about national unity. Last year, after the August
15 Pan-National Rally, the Pan-National Reunification Concert was held; also the
north-south reunification football matches and art festival took place. This
year the north and the south formed unified teams and participated jointly in
the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Youth Football Championship.
This was a result of our people’s desire for reunification that was stronger
than ever before and the intensified trend towards national concert and unity.
This delighted all the brethren in the north, south and abroad and led them to
gain national pride and confidence. If the minds of all our compatriots are
united as one, the great unity of the whole nation will be achieved and the
country reunified. It is in this sense, I think, that the Rev. Mun Ik Hwan in south
Korea said that our nation had been reunified
now, that the reunification was in the perfect tense.
It is also for the sake of genuine
national concert and reunification that we have advanced proposals on national
reunification through confederation based on one nation, one state, two systems
and two governments. Since there exist two different
ideologies and systems in the north and south of our country, the confederation
formula is the only way to achieve national harmony and reunification. In the
light of the situation prevailing in our country it is wrong for either side to
attempt to attain reunification by conquering the other. An ideology and system
should be chosen by the people themselves of their own accord, not through
coercion from outsiders. If one side were to try to impose its ideology and
system on the other, it would be impossible to realize national reunification;
it would rather aggravate the confrontation within our nation and cause further
national calamity. The ideological and institutional differences within our
nation should be gradually overcome not by coercive methods but by strengthening
national unity based on the common interests of the nation. The most essential
interests of our nation lie in the nation’s reunification free from any foreign
domination and interference. In spite of the ideological and institutional
differences within our nation we, as a single people, can bring about
reunification and work together for the common prosperity of the
nation.
Whether they are in the north, south or
abroad, whether they are workers, farmers, intellectuals, young people,
students, politicians, businessmen, religious men, or soldiers, Koreans must all
unite and strive to achieve the reunification of their country, the common cause
of the nation. Just as our people did in the days of building a new country,
compatriots from all strata in the north, south and abroad must join hands in
the cause of national reunification; those who have strength should contribute
their strength, those who have knowledge their knowledge and those who have
money their money.
The workers, farmers and intellectuals
form the major force of the nation. If they cooperate and unite, while
maintaining their own characteristics, they can form a mighty, independent
driving force of the nation and achieve reunification. Workers and farmers
should join hands with intellectuals, while intellectuals should cast in their
lot with workers and farmers and thereby fulfil their
role as the motive force in the struggle for the country’s reunification. It is
unfair to underestimate the role of intellectuals or to adopt a narrow-minded
attitude towards them. When founding the Party, we defined intellectuals, along
with workers and farmers, as one of its components. Our Party’s emblem consists
of a hammer, a sickle and a writing brush. These symbolize the workers,
farmers, and intellectuals who make up our Party. When we began to build a new
society immediately after liberation, we did not leave out the intellectuals,
arguing that they had served Japanese imperialism. We believed in their
patriotism and spirit of national independence and generously brought them to
our side. We regarded the intellectuals scattered across the country as the
nation’s treasure and searched for them one by one. We positively encouraged
them to play an important role in the building of a new country. Our
intellectuals trusted and followed our Party and have thrown in their lot with
it. They dedicated all their efforts and talents to the building of the new
democratic Korea. They also fought courageously
in the Fatherland Liberation War against US imperialist aggression, and after
the war they worked for socialist revolution and
construction.
Today the south
Korean intellectuals, too, are fighting well for the reunification of the
country. The young people and students of south Korea are ardently patriotic and
have a strong spirit of independence against the US. They are
playing a central, leading role in the struggle to make south Korean society independent and democratic and to
reunify the nation. The south Korean young people and
students who are struggling heroically, dedicating their precious youth without
hesitation for independence, democracy and national reunification are the pride
of our nation.
In addition to the workers, peasants and
intellectuals, there are many people in south Korea
from different backgrounds who live in different conditions. We must not neglect
them. We must achieve national unity on the principle of welcoming everyone
without hesitation, who is not a traitor to the nation.
It is very important to have a correct
understanding of religions and to work properly with religious believers. People
believe in a religion because they take their sufferings and misfortunes in this
world as predestined, and they yearn for happiness in the next world. Therefore,
we cannot call them bad. What is bad is the
anti-popular politics that misleads people about the situation and reactionary
rulers who misuse religions, making them an instrument for paralysing the people’s consciousness of independence and
ensuring that the people obey their rule. Progressive religious believers wish
the people to love one another and live in harmony. The south Korean men of religion are opposed to the foreign
invaders who keep our nation artificially divided and who suppress the champions
of reunification at the point of the bayonet. We must be highly appreciative of
the devoted struggle of the south Korean men of
religion for national reunification and unite with them.
It is mortifying that in
south Korea young people,
the sons and daughters of the nation, serve in the “ROK army” under the command
of Americans who use it as a tool for their neo-colonialist domination and for
the implementation of their policy of keeping our nation divided. We must awaken
the officers and men of the “ROK army” to the anti-national and anti-popular
nature of the imperialists and their minions so that they stand firmly by their
own nation and people and cooperate with their parents and brothers in the
struggle for independence, democracy and national
reunification.
As I always say, reunification means
patriotism and division means treason. Those Koreans who desire national
reunification and strive for it are patriots, whereas those who are opposed to
reunification and accept division in league with foreign forces are traitors.
By this criterion we must unite with all those who support reunification and
advance with them in the same ranks. Even one who may have once been opposed to
reunification and have committed crimes against the country and the nation, if
he repents of his mistake and takes part in the struggle for patriotism and
reunification, must be allowed to start with a clean slate and join hands with
us.
There are many people who once led a
dishonourable life in the eyes of the nation but have
broken with their past and taken the patriotic road of national unity and
national reunification. Mr. Choe Tok Sin was one of them. As you all know, he served as a
corps commander of the “ROK army” and “foreign minister” in south
Korea. While he was pursuing the road of
pro-US, anti-communism at important military and political posts, he gradually
began to feel disillusioned about the traitorous and anti-reunification acts of
the ruling authorities and took refuge in a foreign country with the aim of
living an honest life for the nation. While in exile he engaged in patriotic
activities for bringing about the independence and democracy of south Korean society and reunifying the country. He became
clearly aware of which was the patriotic way to follow during many visits to the
homeland. He was moved by the fact that our Republic, which is independent,
self-sufficient and self-reliant in defence, is
displaying the pride and dignity of the Korean nation. He also sympathized with
our consistent, just policy of embracing and joining hands with all those who
love their country and nation, regardless of differences in political views,
ideas and religions without asking about their past, and the policy of great
national unity. He said he had found a paradise on Earth in the homeland, the
land of bliss which he, as a nationalist and Chondoist, had aspired to and sought all his life. With a
determination to dedicate the rest of his life to the just cause of the country
and the nation, he applied for permanent residence in the homeland. Although he
had opposed us in the past, we positively supported his decision and agreed to
join hands with him for the sake of great national unity and the reunification
of the country since he was resolved to break with the past and make a fresh
start for the sake of the country and the nation. After being taken into the
embrace of the homeland, he worked with devotion to the last moment of his life
as the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party and the
Vice-Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland;
he did so for the prosperity and development of the country, for great national
unity and for the country’s reunification. He passed away, failing to see the
day of national reunification to which he had looked forward. But in his last
years he joined the ranks of the national reunification movement and marched
forward with his fellow countrymen. As a result, he came to enjoy immortality
as a patriotic martyr who is held in affection by the people, and who helped his
compatriots at home and abroad to understand the real meaning of national
concert and great unity.
For the realization of great national
unity compatriots from all social strata in the north, south and abroad must
place their common national interests above all else and subordinate everything
to national reunification, transcending differences in ideas, social systems
and religious beliefs. We must regard this as a fundamental principle in
achieving great national unity and firmly adhere to this
principle.
Our national community which has been
formed and consolidated over a history of five thousand years is greater than
transient differences in social systems, ideals and ideologies which have come
about owing to national division; the common national desire to achieve
reunification as a homogeneous nation is incomparably more important than the
interests of individual social classes and social strata. Although the defence of the ideals and ideologies of individual classes
and strata and the realization of their interests are important, it is even more
important to realize the common cause of the nation. Classes and strata form
part of the nation. Therefore, no class and no stratum can realize its own
interests apart from the common national interests. Only when there is a nation
can there be classes, and only when national interests are guaranteed can the
interests of the classes be ensured.
Today when the independence of our
nation is being trampled upon by foreign forces, no class or stratum, if it
belongs to the Korean nation, should hamper the achievement of national
reunification, the common cause of our nation, by putting its interests to the
fore. There should be no practice of placing class interests ahead of national
interests, or of setting the struggle to satisfy class demands against the
struggle for national reunification, swayed by minor interests and prejudices.
Moreover, for fellow countrymen to reject or repress one another on the strength
of government authority because of differences in political views, isms and
assertions or for them to be hostile to one another because of differences in
ideas and social systems—these are fundamentally contrary to the principle of
great national unity jointly agreed upon between north and south, and such acts
are intolerable for the nation. Our people will never be able to achieve their
reunification if the two sides reject and are hostile towards each other,
putting differences to the fore instead of uniting on their common ground as a
single nation.
If the great unity of the nation is to
be achieved, contacts and visits should be widely encouraged among the fellow
countrymen in the north, south and abroad and dialogue be promoted actively
among them.
If the whole nation is to act in concert
and pool its strength for the common purpose, an atmosphere of understanding and
confidence should be created within the nation. Because our country has been
divided and the north and the south have been alienated from each other for a
long time, some people misunderstand their fellow countrymen, believing them to
be their enemy, and some people hesitate to go hand in hand with their fellow
countrymen because of a lack of confidence, although they wish to see national
unity. In order to remove such misunderstanding and distrust within the nation
and realize national concert and unity, it is necessary to encourage free
visits, contacts and talks.
What is important in realizing free
travel and contact and wide-ranging dialogue is to pull down the barrier of
division and remove all political and legal obstacles to it. We have already
made proposals for removing the barrier of division, ensuring free travel and
opening all doors between north and south and have been making untiring efforts
to realize them. The point in question is that the south Korean authorities should pull down the barrier of
division and remove all obstacles that hamper free travel, contact and dialogue
among the fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad. Today the “National
Security Law” of south Korea is a major
obstacle to free travel, contact and dialogue between north and south. In
south Korea those who have
been to the north or who have discussed reunification in foreign lands with
people from the north are punished under the “National Security Law”. The Rev.
Mun Ik Hwan, who is over 70,
a young girl student Rim Su Gyong and other visitors
to the north, as well as a large number of those working for reunification, are
currently imprisoned under this law. If this wicked law is not repealed, there
can be neither free travel and contact nor free dialogue between north and
south. That is why the “National Security Law” must be abolished as soon as
possible.
In order to achieve great national unity
we must strengthen nationwide solidarity in the struggle for national
reunification.
Great national unity cannot be achieved
only by words. It can be achieved and consolidated in the course of developing
joint action by uniting minds and efforts in the struggle to reunify the
country. All political parties, organizations and compatriots from all walks of
life in the north, south and abroad must support one another and take concerted
action in the struggle for the country’s reunification.
The cardinal task here is to check and
frustrate the schemes of the forces which are opposed to reunification and
working to keep the nation divided for ever and provoke another war. In order to
isolate and weaken these forces and defeat their divisive moves, the compatriots
in the north, south and abroad must develop an active joint struggle in various
forms. The tens of thousands of US troops and more than 1,000 nuclear weapons of
various types deployed in south Korea
are the root cause of tension on the Korean peninsula and pose the threat of a
nuclear war. We must have the US troops and nuclear weapons withdrawn from
south Korea as soon as
possible and thus remove the danger of a nuclear war that threatens the
existence of our nation; thus we shall provide a firm guarantee for peace on
the Korean peninsula. All our compatriots in the north, south and abroad must
launch a nationwide struggle to compel the US to withdraw its troops and nuclear weapons
from south Korea and make the
Korean peninsula a nuclear-free, peace zone.
In order to achieve great national unity
all the political parties, organizations and compatriots of all strata in the
north, south and abroad that are struggling for the reunification of the country
must ally themselves with one another organizationally.
It is only when all our compatriots who
adhere to the patriotic cause of reunification are organized into an allied
force that solid national unity can be achieved and unity of action and
unanimity ensured in the struggle for the country’s
reunification.
For the organized unity of the whole
nation, there must be an organization that can ensure the voluntary association
of our compatriots of all strata in the north, south and abroad. I believe that
the Pan-National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification which was inaugurated
in accordance with the decision of the Pan-National Rally last year can be such
an organization. The Pan-National Alliance for the Country’s Reunification was
formed through the joint efforts of the patriotic organizations and public
figures of all strata in the north, south and abroad that aspire to the
independent and peaceful reunification of the country. It is a patriotic
organization for reunification, whose mission is to reunify the country on
the three principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national
unity, and which represents the common will of Koreans in the north, south and
overseas. It has the important duty and responsibility of achieving great
national unity and hastening the reunification of the country. It will have to
work hard, conducting a variety of activities, to expand and strengthen its
ranks steadily among our compatriots and to hasten national
reunification.
Many obstacles and difficulties still
lie in the way of the reunification of our country, but we are looking forward
with confidence to the bright future of national
reunification.
Our nation’s move towards reunification
is now stronger than ever before. Our compatriots in the north, south and abroad
are working hard with a firm determination to reunify the country without fail
in the 1990s. Nobody can break our people’s will to reunify their country, and
no force can ever check our nation’s strong move towards national reunification.
Through the united efforts of the whole nation, our people will overcome the
obstacles and difficulties in their way to national reunification and reunify
their country, come what may.
Once the country is reunified, our
nation will be a dignified and strong nation and our country will emerge on the
world stage as an independent and sovereign country with more than seventy
million people, a brilliant national culture and a powerful economy. Our nation
is industrious and resourceful, and our country is a beautiful land of three
thousand ri in which
it is good to live. When the whole nation is united as one, and when the country
is reunified, there will be nothing for us to fear or envy. Our people will
proudly display the resourcefulness and greatness of the Korean nation and
nobody will dare to encroach upon our sovereignty. If the whole nation combines
its efforts and talents and develops the economy and culture after the country’s
reunification, our country will be more prosperous and civilized, and it will
make a more effective contribution to the common cause of the people in Asia and
the rest of the world for peace and prosperity.
For the Korean people to devote
themselves to national reunification is most honourable and worthwhile. Those who have contributed to
the noble cause of national reunification will be held in love and respect by
the nation and will be highly appreciated by the reunified
nation.
I believe that you comrades, who are at
the forefront of the struggle for national reunification, will carry out the
honourable duty entrusted to you by the country and
the nation.