Kim Jong Il inspects the monument dedicated to the President Kim Il Sung’s signature
Sure realization of national reunification in our era
Kim Jong Il, the lodestar of reunification of Korea, inspected the truce village of Panmunjom well known to the world as a symbol of Korea’s division and inter-Korean confrontation on November 24, 1996.
His visit to Panmunjom, where there prevails the acutest military tension and the north and south of Korea stand opposite to each other, manifested his ardent will to reunify the country.
He, inspecting the monument dedicated to the President’s signature reading “Kim Il Sung July 7, 1994,” stressed that the President’s last autograph is short but has the greatest meaning incomparable to a monument engraved with many letters.
The President perfected the document related to national reunification and left behind his historic handwriting in the morning of July 7, 1994. The President’s final signature concerning national reunification to put an end to national division goes down through generations.
Kim Jong Il said in the following vein:
President Kim Il Sunghad made tireless efforts to reunify the country even in the last hours of his life. The three principles for national reunification agreed by the north and south of Korea, the proposal for the founding of the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the Ten-Point Program of the Great Unity of the Whole Nation are the most reasonable policies the President put forth. These are three pillars and three charters for national reunification. The President’s whole life was that for national reunification, except the period of anti-Japanese armed struggle.
He left the document concerning national reunification and suddenly passed away at his office, his historic autograph has his firm conviction and will to reunify the country and confidence in national reunification.
Kim Jong Il said with a solemn tone that we must reunify the country as desired by the President. The President said that if the cause of national reunification is failed in his era, it must be realized as soon as possible. He is going to reunify the country in his era without fail, true to final instructions of the President.
At the day, he expressed his firm confidence in victory in the movement for national reunification, saying we have great ideology and philosophy.
His historic inspection hardened the Korean nation’s will to reunify the country and it was the national event that accelerated the movement for Korea’s reunification.
The historic cause of Korea’s reunification is being carried forward by the dear respected
Kim Jong Un.
“Our Party and the government of the DPRK will join hands with anyone who sincerely wishes the reunification of the country and peace and prosperity of the nation, and make responsible and persevering efforts to realize the historic cause of the country’s reunification.”
This is a paragraph from the congratulatory speech Kim Jong Un delivered at the military parade held on April 15 to celebrate the 100th birthday of President Kim Il Sung.
It is the firm conviction and will of the dear respected Kim Jong Unto build a reunified prosperous country on this land true to the noble intention of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who devoted themselves to the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and great national unity.
