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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Observed
Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung made sure that the Pan-National Rally for peace and reunification of the country to be held in Panmunjom by delegates from the north and the south of Korea and overseas for the first time in the history of national division on the occasion of August 15, Juche 79 (1990) provided a historical occasion of achieving the great unity of the whole nation. He met with the delegates on August 18 and made public his work "Let the Entire Nation Unite and Hasten the Reunification of the Country".

The work clarifies the issue of firmly adhering to the three principles--independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--, the issue of founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo on the basis of the three principles of national reunification, not copying other's style in solving the issue of reunification, the issue of leading all Koreans to form a broad-based united front and struggling, united close around it and other matters.

Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed article.

It goes on:

The work which fully reflects the earnest instructions of the President on reunifying the country by the concerted efforts of all Koreans serves as ever as a banner instilling the patriotic spirit into them and guaranteeing the victory in the cause of great national unity.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il formulated the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo set forth by the President as the three charters for national reunification and has wisely led the struggle for accomplishing the cause of national reunification through the great unity of the nation on the basis of the three charters.

The adoption of the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, a programme for implementing it, means an inheritance of the President's idea of national reunification and leadership over the struggle to materialize it and its brilliant embodiment.

All the fellow countrymen in the north and the south and overseas should firmly unite under the patriotic banner, the banner of the north-south joint declaration, and bring about national reunification as early as possible, concludes the article.

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