The  Korean  nation  that  lived  on  the  same  land  as a homogeneous nation with a time-honoured history of 5 000 years and a brilliant culture is now suffering pain from national division owing to outside forces. It is the unanimous desire of the entire nation to live in the reunified country.
Chairman Kim Jong Il was the lodestar of national reunification who made painstaking efforts to put an end to national division by opening up a broad avenue to independent reunification.
President Kim Il Sung instructed that Korea must not remain divided, but be reunified as one without fail in line with the unanimous will and demand of the nation and by its own efforts.
The Chairman put forward the President’s instruction as the Juche-oriented line of reunification to be adhered to by the Workers’ Party of Korea and led energetically to lay the solid foundations for realizing the cause of national reunification.
He made public
Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung’s Instructions for National Reunification
and
Let Us Reunify the Country Independently and Peacefully through the Great Unity of the Entire Nation
. In his works he formulated the three principles for national reunification, the plan of founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the ten-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation, all put forward by the President, as the three charters for national reunification and advanced the five-point policy for great national unity, which illuminated the path ahead of the reunification movement of the Korean nation.
He consolidated the national strength of the Republic significantly by administering Songun politics for the country and nation, thereby frustrating the manoeuvres of the anti-reunification forces at home and abroad to ignite a new war and providing a sure guarantee for independent national reunification. He developed inter-Korean relations onto a higher plane and ushered in a new era of independent reunification, peace and prosperity.
Thanks to his noble patriotic desire for reunification and bold decision, the north-south summits were held twice for the first time in the history of national division, in which the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration were adopted, with the ideal of By Our Nation Itself at their core. These events marked a historic milestone in independent reunification and the whole country brimmed with enthusiasm for reunification.
The broad magnanimity and generosity of the Chairman, who embraced anyone desiring national reconciliation, unity and reunification and led them along the patriotic road of reunification, represented a driving, dynamic force that accelerated the opening up and advance of the June 15 era of reunification.
The cause of national reunification advanced along the path to national independence for decades and centuries, overcoming the despicable means of separatist forces at home and abroad.
Inter-Korean dialogues and cooperation, contact and exchange in the fields of politics, the economy and culture gained momentum, producing precious fruits shared by the nation, to the delight of all compatriots, and solidarity and collaboration were achieved between various organizations and personages from every walk of life.
The Chairman, filled with the spirit of ennobling love for the country and nation, performed great exploits in laying the solid foundations for realizing the cause of reunification. These exploits will go down for ever in the history of independent reunification.