Thanks to the clairvoyant wisdom and patriotic bold decision, leader Kim Jong Il provided the south-north summit, the first of its kind in the history of Korea's division, in June 2000, made sure that the joint declaration was adopted, a great jubilee which gave great conviction and joy to Koreans longing for the reunification of the country and a special event which ushered in a new epochal phase of independent reunification, the statement said, and went on:

The historic Pyongyang summit and the publication of the joint declaration are the brilliant fruition of Kim Jong Il's outstanding Songun politics and noble will for reunification and the greatest feat he performed in hewing out the destiny of the nation and reunifying the country.

The joint declaration provided by him serves as the invariable great programme of the Korean nation for reunification.

The people of all social standings should thoroughly shatter with the all-people do-or-die resistance the moves of the pro-U.S. conservative group to ignite a war against the north and stifle the compatriots as the group is trying to make the Koreans victims of a nuclear war while totally denying the south-north joint declarations.

They should never pardon the present conservative ruling forces' pro-U.S., pro-Japanese acts and moves to revive "yusin" dictatorship but valiantly struggle to realize independence and democracy of society.

The AINDF will together with the patriotic people remaining true to the noble patriotic intention of Marshal Kim Jong Un, the sun of the nation and the lodestar of national reunification, wage a more dynamic nationwide struggle to open up an epochal phase of independent reunification by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation, firmly taking hold on the south-north joint declarations.