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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed
Pyongyang, August 5 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Monday dedicates an article to the 16th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's work "Let Us Carry Out the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's Instructions for National Reunification" published on August 4, Juche 86 (1997).

Kim Jong Il in the work comprehensively clarifies all the issues arising in achieving the country's reunification and formulates as the Three Charters for National Reunification the three principles of national reunification for independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity, the 10-point programme for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo proposed by President Kim Il Sung.

The article says:

The work serves as an immortal reunification programme which reflects the unwavering faith and will of Kim Jong Il to thoroughly carry forward the cause of the country's reunification started and led by Kim Il Sung, surely realize his lifetime desire and hand the reunified country to all the Koreans.

The validity and vitality of the work were fully demonstrated through the efforts of the Korean people to achieve the country's reunification over the last 16 years.

All the Koreans aspiring after patriotism are firmly united under the banner of national independence, the movement for the country's reunification has developed into a nation-wide one involving the north, the south and abroad and a massive one grouping the people from all walks of life irrespective of ideology, political view and affiliation, the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration were published and events unprecedented in the history of the inter-Korean relations took place. These facts go to clearly prove the validity and vitality of the work.

The work serves as a great banner encouraging all the Koreans to the nation-wide struggle for frustrating the anti-DPRK provocations of outside forces and their stooges by the concerted efforts of the nation and implementing the last instructions of the peerlessly great men for the country's reunification.

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